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From: rudoff@MDI.COM (Doug Rudoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Missing Meta Key on Ultrix 4.1 (again)
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.160755.8326@MDI.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 91 16:07:55 GMT
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>I have a version of GNU emacs 18.55 that has been running fine on our
>Ultrix 3.1 machines. We now have some machines running 4.1 and while
>logged into the 4.1 machines emacs no longer realizes that the meta
>key on the terminal has been pressed.  Any meta-command must be
>entered with an escape.

A number of people have mentioned that I should try using xev(1) to
see what the meta key is generating (I know it's working in tcsh, just
not in emacs), or using xmodmap to redefine the meta key definition.

I don't have either of those programs on my machine.

The machine I'm using doesn't even run X-windows and doesn't have a
graphics console. It's accessed through a plain terminal or through a
remote login from a Sun workstation (which is where I have the meta
key problem). On the Sun I'm running SunView.

Within emacs, meta-flag is set to t, so that shouldn't be my problem.

It looks like I might have to dig through the emacs source code to
figure this one out.
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