Re: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs

Thanks to Charlie and Vincent for their responses, I got my keyboard properly configured. I did, however, do so in a slightly different manner. The usual method fo swapping Caps Lock and Control keys does just that, it swaps the keys; so, if you run xmodmap on the file twice they are back to how t

Re: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:28:25 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > I currently would like to have the and keys > act as keys in emacs These keys should be the mod1 modifiers. The modifiers are given by "xmodmap -pme". You can set them with: keycode xxx = Alt_L keycode yyy = Alt_R clear mod1 add mod1 =

RE: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs

> -Original Message- > From: Joe Riel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:28 AM > To: debian > Subject: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs > > > I use a pc104 keyboard, the bottom row looks like the following: > > > > Using

Alt vs Meta key in Emacs

I use a pc104 keyboard, the bottom row looks like the following: Using xmodmap I swapped the key with the . In emacs (under X), acts like a key, doesn't do anything (using xev it shows up as "multi-key") and do nothing (they act as modifier keys, but that does nothing in