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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

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