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From: jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer)
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Subject: Re: Alternate as a Meta key in emacs??
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Date: 25 Feb 90 02:27:25 GMT
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In article <1990Feb25.001112.17746@athena.mit.edu> erikkay@podge.MIT.EDU (Erik Kay) writes:
>>   How does one configure emacs to use the Alternate key as a meta-key?
>I'd appreicate some info on this as well.  Also, is there a way to define
>the arrow keys as:
>
>left: ^b
>right: ^f
>up: ^p
>down: ^n

I'm not sure I understand what you want Erik. The way that Emacs comes on
a NeXT is set so that the arrow keys (ESC O A, ESC O B, ESC O C, and ESC O D)
are bound to go up a line, down a line, right a character, and left a
character by default. I don't think it is possible to make the arrow keys
generate a ^b, ^f, ^p, or ^n.

I have rebound the up and down arrow keys to do something else because I
rarely reach for the arrow keys to move around (arrow keys are for wimps :-)
You can do this by doing a "M-x global-set-key RET ESC O B shrink-window"
or something like that (where M-x means Meta x or ESC x and RET means 
hitting the return key.)

To do this in your .emacs file you should have a line like this:
(define-key global-map "\M-OB" 'shrink-window)

As for using the Alternate key for Meta, I know nothing about it. Sorry.

Bryce Jasmer
jasmerb@cs.orst.edu