Re: Problem with keyboard-translate and mapping of parentheses
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Re: Problem with keyboard-translate and mapping of parentheses         

Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: Josip Gracin
Date: Oct 21, 2007 12:19

Josip Gracin wrote:
> It works as expected. Pressing [ on the keyboard produces (.
> However, when I press Meta and [ I don't get the expected M-( but an
> error message saying that M-[ is not unbound. As if the translation is
> not active when using modifiers.

Just a little update... Since I'm using a PC keyboard, I'm actually
pressing the Alt key. But, if I press ESC and then [, it works.
Something to do with Alt not being treated exactly as Meta?

My xmodmap reports:

mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x9c)
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