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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Turning the Alt key into a Meta key
Message-ID: <3430@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 1 May 91 10:30:45 GMT
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dboles@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Boles) writes:

>The subject line pretty much says it all, I've heard that some 
>people out there have done this for Emacs and I'd like to join
>in the fun.

If you are using X (which you should!), you can call xmodmap with an
input file containing these three lines:

	! For SGI keyboard: turn Alt keys into Meta keys
	keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
	keysym Alt_R = Meta_R

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
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