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Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'
From: |
Yuri Khan |
Subject: |
Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw' |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Feb 2016 14:57:55 +0600 |
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Bob Bernstein <rosebud@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Launched in […] xterm, with '-nw,' emacs uses Esc for
> its Meta key, which I find um disenchanting, for lack of a
> better term.
>
> […] is this a matter of setting my xterm correctly?
This. With a typical PC keyboard (which has Alt keys but no dedicated
hardware Meta keys), you’ll need to set the
XTerm.vt100.metaSendsEscape resource to true.