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Re: where does Alt become Meta?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: where does Alt become Meta? |
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:12:15 +0300 |
> From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=)
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:16:43 +0200
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> >> Where does Emacs map Alt combinations to Meta combinations?
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> > Nowhere. This is done outside Emacs's keymaps.
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> Unless there are Meta keys, Emacs reinterprets Alt as Meta.
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> [xterm.c]
xterm.c is a low-level infrastructure, below the Emacs keymap
machinery.
Anyway, the OP uses VNC on Windows, where there's no separate Meta
key. So I don't think the cited fragment from xterm.c applies.