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From: kaplan@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Meta-keys on sun under X?
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Date: 9 Mar 88 18:02:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!kaplan    Mar  9 12:02:00 1988


When running a "standard" gnu emacs (version 18.49.9) on a sun 3/60 under
X10, I cant use the "left" and "right" keys as meta keys.  This works fine
under suntools and using the console as a raw terminal.  The X server
obviously recognises left and right as meta keys because i have uwm men`us
bound to the meta-button combinations, and that works.  But the server
seems to trap the meta keys.  

IS there a way to get around this problem?  

(by "standard" gnu above I mean one for which "have-X-windows" as not
defined when the emacs was made.  Is it necessary to define this in order
to use the meta-keys?  Can non-x users (ie suntools) still use the emacs
then?  can I have has-X-windows and the suntools flag both set in the same
make?)

thanks in advance for any help

Simon Kaplan
University of Illinois
(kaplan@a.cs.uiuc.edu)
(ihnp4!uiucdcs!kaplan)