Date: 17 Mar 1998 23:22:40 -0500 From: Kevin Street <street@iName.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emacs in FreeBSD Environment Message-ID: <873eggpqzz.fsf@kstreet.interlog.com> In-Reply-To: Dave Marquardt's message of "16 Mar 1998 22:35:17 -0600" References: <1141744A9866D111B6C90000F8BCBC240CA586@bcarua63.ca.nortel.com> <857m5ulyt6.fsf@localhost.zilker.net>
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Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> writes:
> "David Lee" <David.Lee.ddlee@nt.com> 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 <ALT> key does not work as
> > my <META> key. Instead, I am forced to use my <ESC> key. I prefer using
> > the <ALT>. When I use Emacs under Linux on the same machine, I can use the
> > <ALT> 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
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