Re: Alt vs Meta?

Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) wrote: > This is somewhat off-topic, but it does relate to XEmacs. > > On my solaris box, gnome-terminals want to use Alt key to do > command-line editing with bash. But after decades (gasp!) of XEmacs > usage, I want to use Meta key. (Note that xterms work just fine with > Meta). AFAICT, Gnome, GTK+ etc use "mod1" for "the other modifier"; they don't care which keysyms are bound to it. So, if you bind Meta_{L,R} to mod1 and either bind Alt_{L,R} to a different modifier or don't bind them to any modifier, Meta should work as expected in both gnome-terminal and XEmacs.

However, Xt-based apps (e.g. XTerm) understand the difference between Alt and Meta, and are normally configured accordingly. For XTerm, the altIsNotMeta, altSendsEscape, metaSendsEscape and eightBitInput resources may be relevant.