On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jeff Flowers wrote:

> > > When using Emacs on NetBSD, which key serves as the META key?
> >
> > Depends pretty strongly on what sort of keyboard you are using on what
> > sort of machine. Is this an Amiga? A PC? A Sun? And for each of those,
> > what keyboard are we talking about, and are you running under X or
> > not?
>
> I am running a console only NetBSD 1.5.2 on a PC.

The default wscons terminal setup doesn't map "ALT" to meta.  Try doing
"export TERM=wsvt25m" (assuming you're using sh or bash - use setenv under
csh).  The "wsvt25m" termcap entry is the same as "wsvt25" but has alt as
meta.

Rick