On 2005-10-10 10:20, Leonidas Tsampros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:41:42PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> I have an older PS2 Happy Hacking Lite Keyboard (love it!), but I'm getting
>> reacquainted with Emacs and one aspect of the keyboard is driving me nuts: I
>> can't seem to get the diamond keys (like "Windows keys") to send only Meta to
>> Emacs.
>> [...]
>> However, if I run Emacs and type C-h k (describe-key) and then M-a, for
>> example, I get the error message "H-M-s-a is undefined" as though the
>> keyboard is sending Hyper-Meta-shift(?)-a instead.
>>
>> I'd like to get this fixed ASAP, as using ESC for Meta for the rest of my 
>> life
>> doesn't seem too appealing.
>
> When i use xterm , i have the following resource set:
>
>       [-xrm] 'XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true'
>
> This one really helps when you've got to play with emacs or irssi.

Heh, indeed!  Any chance of getting two distinct keysyms, so that left
Alt sends Meta but is a different keysym from Escape?

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