[comp.sys.apollo] GNU Emacs and X windows

rand@HWCAE.CFSAT.HONEYWELL.COM (Douglas K. Rand) (11/27/90)

I've been using GNU Emacs with GPR support for a while now. And I
really like it. (In fact, I don't think I could live with out it. I
use it for reading news, sending/reading mail, writing code, and
everything else that I have to do editing.) The extra keys that
HP/Apollo put on the keyboard really work great with Emacs. Now, on to
the question.

How can I get these keys to work with GNU Emacs under X windows? I
want to use the X support inside of Emacs instead of GPR stuff. But
how do I get shift/control/meta to all work with the gray keys?

I have found the x-rebind-key function that redefines a key to a new
string sequence (eg. the up-arrow to \C-p). But we have all of the
function keys set up to directly invoke a function. I don't like the
idea of having Shift-F10 sending the string:
	M-x repeat-regexp-isearch-forward
Too much to send for a key, and difficult to track. Has anybody set up
a new key prefix for X? Leonard Zubkoff set up one for GPR? (M-* and
M-+ for 18.54 and previous.)

Has anybody changed the Meta key for Emacs to be something other than
the Mod_1 modifier? I have one of the new keyboards (two alt keys) and
would like to use different ones for Emacs and X.

I realize that this is probably the wrong place for this posting, but
I don't have access to comp.emacs or comp.windows.x, so I'm going to
rely on all of you intelligent HP/Apollo users.
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