From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs does not recognize the alt modifier key Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:46:20 -0600 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: References: Reply-To: tim@johnsons-web.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265946044 25208 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2010 03:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 12 04:40:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfmOV-0007nI-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:40:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51028 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfmOU-0004Rc-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:40:38 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:46:20 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: sv3-SIJEQpFnS1WljNYV79UqlLqab4K9QCyZQxVYqhf0sXsiKAO5RLrvOcCgsHFNtCVmcaSZxcY/cDYvWVQ!sW/Qb3U/yw3TejQX6IX7d8H/wz7+P3KmAdS3dd8+WsSwhYGS+zQNcwHR2shlOmZyscvcN8U= Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176745 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71816 Archived-At: On 2010-02-12, Tim Johnson wrote: > <..> > Emacs does not recognize the alt key on this Operating system. Emacs > does recognize the following modifiers: control, hyper and super. The > last two are set via xmodmap. xev will recognize the 'alt' key as do > other applications - such as vim. <..> > ;; Note 'H-p' instead of 'M-p'. > > I have not changed any of my emacs settings (that I know of) since I > used emacs on previous OSs (slack 10.0 and kubuntu). Well, I've surprised myself and found the solution. As a mea culpa, here is the solution: My .Xmodmap file, which is run by slack at login and reconfigures my keyboard to meet my preferences did not do any remapping for the right alt/meta key. I.E., the key remains as originally designed. The left alt/meta key had been remapped. Just for grins, I applied : following xmodmap command: keycode 108 = Alt_R ! followed by: add mod1 = Alt_R ! and now both the right and left alt/meta keys are recognized by emacs. -- Tim tim@johnsons-web.com http://www.akwebsoft.com