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Date: | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:05:47 -0700 |
From: | Michael Smus <msmus AT kabira DOT com> |
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Subject: | Alt key is interpreted as ESC |
Hello list, I am having problem with passing Alt key as a Meta key in rxvt terminal emulator. My use case is: - run rxvt locally under cygwin - rlogin to unix host - run emacs in terminal window. - issue Alt-Backspace I am expecting emacs executing command backward-kill-word, but instead it executes mark-defun command, that is mapped to "ESC C-h". So emacs interprets "Alt-Backspace" as "ESC-Backspace". My further investigation in the topic showed that indeed "Alt-<CharKey>" producing the same code as "ESC <CharKey>" as in: - cat -v - press ESC and g displayed as ^[g - simultaneous press Alt-g displayed as ^[g so it looks like somewhere ihn the chain Alt is treated as it it is ESC. What should be done to let Alt be interpreted as Meta ? Thanks, Mike -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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