[lug] Emacs problem

[Steve T.]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 05:52:05PM -0600, Tkil wrote:
> >>>>> "Tkil" == tkil  <tkil at scrye.com> writes:
> 
> Tkil> i haven't done enough work on the console to guess what might be
> Tkil> eating ALT/META events....
> 
> it occurs to me that this might be some sort of weird dead key
> (graphical compose, accents, whatever you call them) processing.  try
> holding down your alt or meta key, then typing (say) "e" and "'" ...
> that should generated an accented e.

It doesn't - neither does ESC-e-' - but interestingly enough ESC-e somehow
shows up as M-e.  Does this mean that my copy of XEmacs is set up to have
escape function as both ESC and meta?

Also oddly, the 'meta' bit appears to be selective - the traditional meta
key, lovely alt, captures just fine for sequences like meta-x.  

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