Re: how to customize Alt key for emacs on windows xp

[Lennart Borgman]

Peter Lee wrote:
> > > > > Badari Kakumani writes:
> > > > >           
>
>     > my emacs on windows xp thinks Alt key to be Meta key (escape key).
>     > is there a way to tell my emacs to distinguish between the two?
>
> ,----[ C-h v w32-alt-is-meta RET ]
> | w32-alt-is-meta is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> | Its value is t
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Non-nil if the alt key is to be considered the same as the meta key.
> | When nil, Emacs will translate the alt key to the Alt modifier, and not Meta.
> | 
> | [back]
> `----
>   
You may also be interested in the patched version of Emacs that you can 
get with the EmacsW32+Emacs installer. With this patched version of 
Emacs you can use the windows keys as Emacs META. See

  http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32Util.html#alt-war