xorg and meta key under Emacs
Gérard Milmeister
gemi at bluewin.ch
Sun Jan 16 21:48:44 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:19 -0500, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 18:43 -0500, Amarpreet Rattan wrote:
>
> > is it possible to install xorg-6.7 with fedora 3?
>
> I have been using xorg-6.7 since I upgraded to FC 3. The reason is that
> Emacs's meta key, which is required in order to be able to use Emacs
> conveniently, is broken by xorg-x11-6.8. I reported this with Bugzilla
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139424), but there
> hasn't been any response.
Here too. I compiled and installed a CVS snapshot of emacs, and there
the meta keys works.
In the Fedora Emacs Meta-x (which works in XEmacs and the CVS Emacs and
is mapped on the left Winkey) produces the code H-M-s-x, Left-Alt-x
produces A-x as expected.
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