From: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Start xterm from minibuffer??
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44b7ebe5$0$15795$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e98hgi$q2s$1@news.net.uni-c.dk>
Johs32 wrote:
> Lothar Braun wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:32 +0200, Johs32 wrote:
>>> How do I enter the minibuffer and start an xterm or run another linux
>>> command??
>> Just press M-! and enter the command you want to run.
>>
>> -- Lothar
>
>
> How do I do that?? I have tried Alt+1, Alt+Shift+1 but that does not give
> me: M-!
I've set my machine from UK 105 to DK 105,
and M-! works (Alt-Shift-1) (on Xemacs under Debian etch)
What does M-h w shell-command RET
report?
Have you any key modification commands in your .emacs?
"emacs -q" or "emacs --vanilla" should start emacs
without reading your configurations.
>
> I have tried Alt+M+Alt+x which gives me:
>
> M-x but from there I cannot type eg. xterm
Does Alt-x give you this, or do you have to precede it with Alt-M ?
HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-14 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-14 15:32 Start xterm from minibuffer?? Johs32
2006-07-14 15:43 ` Lothar Braun
[not found] ` <mailman.4098.1152891756.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-14 16:41 ` Johs32
2006-07-14 18:19 ` Lothar Braun
2006-07-14 19:10 ` Colin S. Miller [this message]
2006-07-15 0:47 ` Tim X
2006-07-15 1:20 ` Alphan Bayazit
2006-07-15 8:45 ` Peter Dyballa
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