From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Bernstein Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Meta key for 'emacs -nw' Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 04:06:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System, Est. 1987 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454400788 7862 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2016 08:13:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:13:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 09:13:07 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQW59-0001Nt-4L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:13:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55665 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQW58-0003qJ-GW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 03:13:02 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!odin.sdf-eu.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdf.org Original-X-Trace: odin.sdf-eu.org 1454386006 2538 192.94.73.15 (2 Feb 2016 04:06:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@odin.sdf-eu.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 04:06:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (NetBSD/7.0 (amd64)) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216664 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 03:12:41 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108958 Archived-At: Emacs, unless specifically told not to do it -- with the '-nw' option, will ordinarily launch here (in an xterm) in X window fashion, and the Meta key is then 'Alt'. Launched in the same xterm, with '-nw,' emacs uses Esc for its Meta key, which I find um disenchanting, for lack of a better term. Do I need to place some information in my .emacs, perhaps related to the minibuffer, instructing emacs to stay with Alt for its Meta key? Or is this a matter of setting my xterm correctly? (A thousand pardons if this is a F A Q.) -- Bob Bernstein