They are very bad, BAD people. XEmacs/GTK was handling alt/meta
differently than their version, but the same as a 'real' build from
pristine XEmacs 21.1.12 sources. Sooo, the user found this little patch in
the mandrake source RPM:
--- xemacs-21.1.9/src/events-mod.h.chmou Sun Nov 9 08:07:51 1997
+++ xemacs-21.1.9/src/events-mod.h Fri Mar 24 14:21:24 2000
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
#define MOD_META (1<<1)
#define MOD_SUPER (1<<2)
#define MOD_HYPER (1<<3)
-#define MOD_ALT (1<<4)
+#define MOD_ALT (1<<1)
#define MOD_SHIFT (1<<5) /* not used for dual-case characters */
Must... control... fist... of... death...
-bp