"Johann \"Myrkraverk\" Oskarsson" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Thomas Adam <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 5 February 2010 09:36, Johann "Myrkraverk" Oskarsson >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > Snipped, and thank you. > >>> And on the subject of keybindings, why is that I use M (meta) to say >>> "alt" when my meta and alt keys are different according to xev? >> >> For that very reason -- Meta doesn't *have* to refer to Alt, since >> some keyboards (Sun, I believe) do have an actual "Meta" key. > > Honestly, I don't follow. I have my windows key generate Meta [*] and > find it slightly disturbing that I use M for Alt. How do I refer to > my Meta key? Not that I really want to, I use it extensively in > Emacs. I'm not sure I follow the original question. Both Fvwm and Emacs refer to the "Alt_L" key as Meta. A long history of keyboard inconsistency got us to where we are today. Under X Windows, Alt_L by default generates "mod1". Fvwm will let you bind to the key as "Alt_L", or refer to the modifier as "1". Does that help?
