Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Harry Putnam]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

[...]

> I just tried that, and it works for me. Are you running Emacs from
> a terminal emulator?

I'm running emacs in X.

> . . . . . . . . In that case, it might be the emulator isn't
> tuned to that key. I'm not using Emacs in X, but once I did, and I
> recall that some stuff in .Xresources got the Meta key working:
>
> xterm*metaSendsEscape: true
> URxvt*altSendsEscape: true
>
> If you use xterm or urxvt, try that. (In .xinitrc, put
>
> xrdb ~/.Xresources
>
> first thing.)

Thanks.. I'll try that.