From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 20:23:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02933 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kstreet.interlog.com (kws@kstreet.interlog.com [198.53.146.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02925 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kws@kstreet.interlog.com) Received: (from kws@localhost) by kstreet.interlog.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27743; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:22:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kws) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emacs in FreeBSD Environment References: <1141744A9866D111B6C90000F8BCBC240CA586@bcarua63.ca.nortel.com> <857m5ulyt6.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> From: Kevin Street Date: 17 Mar 1998 23:22:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: Dave Marquardt's message of "16 Mar 1998 22:35:17 -0600" Message-ID: <873eggpqzz.fsf@kstreet.interlog.com> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Marquardt writes: > "David Lee" writes: > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a Pentium 75 with 16 Mb of RAM. My question > > is about the Emacs editor. When I run Emacs, my key does not work as > > my key. Instead, I am forced to use my key. I prefer using > > the . When I use Emacs under Linux on the same machine, I can use the > > without problems. > > > Are you running X? I noticed that if you select the X keyboard > extension (or something like that) when configuring XFree86, the ALT > key doesn't work as a Meta key. If you don't select the X keyboard > stuff, ALT becomes Meta. Sorry to be so vague, but it's a clue. I think in X (at least in XFree86 3.3.2) if you're using the: XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)" in your XF86Config, then the keyboard is set up with Meta on the Windows keys (but I don't have no steenking Windows keys...). I put the following in ~/.Xmodmap: clear mod4 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R and made sure that there was a xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap in my ~/.xsession (or called somewhere in the startup of X) and things worked correctly again. -- Kevin Street street@iName.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message