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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Re: Using Alt as Meta
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:46:06 +0100
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:41:22AM -0500, J. David Boyd wrote:
> Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:46:17PM -0400, Chris Leyon wrote:
> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> >  Why is is that I have to use <Esc-Right> for org-metaright, and <Alt-Right> brings up the message: '<A-right> is undefined'? What's an appropriate way to
> >> >  tell org-mode to use Alt as Meta in this situation?
> >> >  Thanks!
> >> >  Dan
> >> 
> >> Try putting `(setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)' in your .emacs
> >
> > Thanks, but that hasn't made a difference that I can see. <Alt-x> still functions as M-x but <Alt-Right/Left/Up/Down> bring up a message saying they're undefined,.
> > I should have said, this is under
> >
> > GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-11-06 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu
> > Org-mode version 5.23a
> > Ubuntu
> > Linux Tichodroma 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Dan
> >
> 
> What does C-h k show for those keys?  
> 
> For example, under my emacs running under cygwin under windows vista (I know, yuck), 
> 
> C-h k follwed by <Alt-key right arrow> shows
> 
> <M-right> runs the command forward-word

For me it shows

<A-right> is undefined

Dan

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> Dave
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