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[Ari Steinberg <ari.steinberg AT stanford.edu>]

For this and all related problems, I'd suggest try messing around with 
xf86config.  There are a bunch of options there about what kind of keyboard 
you have and what special keys it has and whatnot.  I'm not completely sure 
on what most of them do, but there's plenty there to mess with.
-Ari

On Sunday 11 August 2002 10:14 am, David McNab wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed SourceMage in the last day, and am generally really
> impressed.
>
> Just one painful problem - in XEmacs, the Alt key is being interpreted
> as a Meta key.
>
> I think this is wrong - it certainly wasn't the case with Emacs on
> Debian.
>
> I've searched all over google, xemacs.org and emacswiki.org, and while
> there's some info on turning Alt into Meta, there's no info on turning
> it back into Alt. I've hit a low point of frustration with this one.
>
> Can someone *please* tell me how I can setup XEmacs (or X, if absolutely
> necessary) so that the Alt key gets read as an Alt key?
>
> I've got a whole pile of Emacs keybindings I've been using for months,
> which need the Alt key. No way do i want to lose the extra functionality
> of having Alt.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Cheers
> David
>
>
>
>
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