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Subject: Re: No Meta Key under Linux, other key-mapping, syntax problems
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repayne  writes:

> 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.

What does your .Xmodmap look like?

I use this:
! XModmap file
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
! keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L


> 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.

Do you remember which file he modified, and approximately what date
(within 4 or 5 months is close enough)?  The patch can be
reconstructed.  The current Lisp code is synched with 19.34, but not
all files got synched, and perhaps this was a change to one of the
variant files.

If you can even remember the language he used, we can grep for the
patch in the ChangeLogs.
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
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