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Why doesn my Meta (Alt) key work in Xterm?

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Why doesn my Meta (Alt) key work in Xterm?

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You probably need to set the metaSendsEscape resource to “true”. Follow the instructions given in the section “How do I change Emacs’ default font?”, substituting “XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true” where it says “Emacs.Font: fixed”. Then restart Xterm.

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