Re: Using Alt as Meta

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:46:17PM -0400, Chris Leyon wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >  Why is is that I have to use <Esc-Right> for org-metaright, and <Alt-Right> brings up the message: '<A-right> is undefined'? What's an appropriate way to
>> >  tell org-mode to use Alt as Meta in this situation?
>> >  Thanks!
>> >  Dan
>> 
>> Try putting `(setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)' in your .emacs
>
> Thanks, but that hasn't made a difference that I can see. <Alt-x> still functions as M-x but <Alt-Right/Left/Up/Down> bring up a message saying they're undefined,.
> I should have said, this is under
>
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2007-11-06 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu
> Org-mode version 5.23a
> Ubuntu
> Linux Tichodroma 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Dan
>

What does C-h k show for those keys?  

For example, under my emacs running under cygwin under windows vista (I know, yuck), 

C-h k follwed by <Alt-key right arrow> shows

<M-right> runs the command forward-word


Dave