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Subject: No Meta Key under Linux, other key-mapping, syntax problems
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When using Xemacs on Linux, I notice at times that Alt does not act as the
Meta key.  I am used to the Alt Key being Meta for key combinations like
M-< M->, but when I type these into XEmacs it tells me the keys A-<, A->
are not defined.  I am going crazy 8^), so I can't be sure if this is
something that is always this way, or something that stops after Xemacs has
been up for a while.  I would almost swear that it didn't start out this
way (the reason this question is coming to *this* list), but then the
insanity kicks in.

The other problem I have been having is one of syntax; Syntax local to a
mode.  While scripting (perl-mode) and programming (c++-mode) I have
noticed times when the mode syntax breaks and normal keys (M-backspace,
M-f, M-b) stop working in the normal way and start moving by units larger
than the 'word' they were supposed to work on.  This is a problem that I
saw in FSF Emacs several versions ago, which I reported to that group at
the time, and Stallman responded with a bit of patch to be made to one of
the .el files, and then re-compile that.  	I no longer have that code, and
would hesitate to install it if I did b/c of the differences between Emacs
and XEmacs.  If I kill the buffer that I am working in when this happens,
and reload the relevant file, all is well.

Any suggestions?  Thanks, in advance.

									-rob

