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!!! Alt vs Meta
-At some stage (eg xterm version 187 in Debian Unstable), xterm started treating keyboard input differently when the Alt key was pressed. (For PC keyboards, the Alt key has the <tt>mod_1</tt> X keyboard modifier set). For example, pressing Alt+x generates a "ø" and pressing Alt+q now generates "ñ". This isn't very good if you want to use the Alt key in emacs(1) in the terminal. The best solution for this is to add <tt>XTerm*eightBitInput: false</tt> to either <tt>$HOME/.Xresources</tt> (for a single user) or to <tt>/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm</tt> (for a system wide default). The same change can be made for the <tt>UXTerm</tt> class for when you're using a [UTF8
] xterm.
+At some stage (eg xterm version 187 in Debian Unstable), xterm started treating keyboard input differently when the Alt key was pressed. (For PC keyboards, the Alt key has the <tt>mod_1</tt> X keyboard modifier set). For example, pressing Alt+x generates a "ø" and pressing Alt+q now generates "ñ". This isn't very good if you want to use the Alt key in emacs(1) in the terminal. The best solution for this is to add <tt>XTerm*eightBitInput: false</tt> to either <tt>$HOME/.Xresources</tt> (for a single user) or to <tt>/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm</tt> (for a system wide default). The same change can be made for the <tt>UXTerm</tt> class for when you're using a [UTF-8
] xterm.
Another solution (that isn't as tidy as the above) is to use xmodmap(1) to tell X that your Alt key should generate Meta:
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