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- From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Subject: Re: Emacs meta key in SLS
- In-Reply-To: S_SPECKER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:52:00 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:18:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.155200.18760@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> S_SPECKER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Specker Alexander) writes:
-
- >> I'm using Emacs from the SLS distribution and it doesn't recognize
- >> the ALT key as meta. Is there any way to change it (~/.emacs)??
-
- >You have to set this in the Kernel-Makefile and
- >recompile it.
-
- There are two ways of doing this, either make the alt key prepend an
- escape character in front of the character pressed together with alt.
- This setting is no longer in the Makefile; you choose this behaviour
- with the new config script.
-
- If you are not interested in eight bit characters, but use just plain
- 7-bit ASCII, you can put this in your .emacs:
-
- (setq meta-flag 't)
-
- For this to work, you must answer 'no' to the question in the config
- script.
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
-