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Re: Emacs does not recognize the alt modifier key
From: |
Tim Johnson |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs does not recognize the alt modifier key |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:46:20 -0600 |
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On 2010-02-12, Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
>
<..>
> Emacs does not recognize the alt key on this Operating system. Emacs
> does recognize the following modifiers: control, hyper and super. The
> last two are set via xmodmap. xev will recognize the 'alt' key as do
> other applications - such as vim.
<..>
> ;; Note 'H-p' instead of 'M-p'.
>
> I have not changed any of my emacs settings (that I know of) since I
> used emacs on previous OSs (slack 10.0 and kubuntu).
Well, I've surprised myself and found the solution. As a mea culpa,
here is the solution:
My .Xmodmap file, which is run by slack at login and reconfigures my
keyboard to meet my preferences did not do any remapping for the right
alt/meta key. I.E., the key remains as originally designed.
The left alt/meta key had been remapped.
Just for grins, I applied : following xmodmap command:
keycode 108 = Alt_R
! followed by:
add mod1 = Alt_R
! and now both the right and left alt/meta keys are recognized by
emacs.
--
Tim
tim@johnsons-web.com
http://www.akwebsoft.com