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In article <1992Jul22.102713.863@glocke.hotb.sub.org>  
frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas) writes:
> In article <35747@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mclegg@cs.ucsd.edu (Matthew Clegg)  
> writes:
> > I'm curious if there is a (relatively easy) way to cause emacs to
> > identify the "Alternate" key on the keyboard with its concept of the
> > "META" key.  For example, I would like to be able to press the
> > keystroke combination "Alternate-<" to go to the beginning of the file
> > instead of the usual "ESC-<".  Any advice or pointers along these
> > lines would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > -- 
> Get Emacs2.0 which is a frontend for your emacs. I think i found it on
> cs.orst.edu or {nova,sonata}.cc.purdue.edu. Emacs2.0 uses ALT as META,
> you can use the mouse to set the cusor to any point, and you can use
> CMD-{X,C,V,Z} to do what you expcet from it. 
> My problem is, that this is not of much use in Germany where we have to
> type eg 'ALT-8' to get '['.

Getting Emacs is the best way to go, but you can also get the meta key to  
work in your shell windows by placing the following line into your .emacs  
file.

(setq-default meta-flag t)

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Chris Paris
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