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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Emacs under 'Ultrix(RISC)' DECwindows
Keywords: emacs xterm meta xmodmap
Message-ID: <1356@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 21 Apr 89 04:33:49 GMT
References: <517@laic.UUCP>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
Lines: 18

In article <517@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
>I have keys remapped so I have an escape key (only DEC would come out
>with a UNIX only machine, and not have an escape key :-) and <> in
>the right places.  However, this gets saved as a dxterm resource, and
>is not general enough so that emacs sees this remapping.

This seems to be a common problem so I'll post the answer.  add this line
to your .X11Startup file:

xmodmap -e "keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L" -e "keysym period = period greater" -e
"keysym comma = comma less" &

(All on one line.)  This makes the compose key act like a meta key for
emacs and puts < and > on the , and . keys.  Also, key F11 is already
escape if you ever find yourself using an unfixed keyboard.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente