On Wed, 12 May 1999, Allen B. Riddell wrote: > > the ALT key (on my PC keyboard) doesn't seem to work in emacs.. It works in > netscape -- and aside from that, I have absolutely no problems at all with > anything... >
Probably the "Windows" key (if you have one) is bound to the Meta keysym, which is what Emacs is looking for; I don't think Emacs uses the Alt keysym at all by default. If you don't have a Windows key, you need to move Meta to some other key of your choice. (Many people have the physical Alt key send both Alt and Meta keysyms, which is technically wrong but works nice in practice, since few apps use both keysyms. However, XEmacs insists on complaining about it every time you start up.) That said, I'm not sure how to do this without Xmodmap. Perhaps it will help to know what you're trying to achieve though. :-) Havoc