From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:20:08 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <871u4i6w2f.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r4cnmlxf.fsf@newsguy.com> <5D24468E-2A38-4F4C-AD14-9A1401683124@Web.DE> <8738oz5uh4.fsf@newsguy.com> <20130920172847.GA30192@hysteria.proulx.com> <87li2rmegr.fsf@newsguy.com> <871u4j6sy7.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379777131 26872 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2013 15:25:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:25:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 21 17:25:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP3t-0004ph-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:25:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP3s-0003jr-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:25:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50137) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP3W-0003bY-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP3Q-0003tF-RN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33505) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP3Q-0003rl-Lo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP3P-0003lb-JC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W5rw04q8F+X22l5R6AmzaAL9Rfo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93496 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> | mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd) >>> This might be a source of problems: try to remap your Meta_L key to >>> Alt_L as follows: >>> xmodmap -e 'keysym Meta_L = Alt_L' >> Should I see results immediately or does this require a restart of X? > > Should be immediate, if it works that is, > Thanks, it appears not to have any effect, other than changing the output of `xmodmap' to this: ,---- | xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): | | shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) | lock Caps_Lock (0x42) | control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69) | mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Alt_L (0xcd) | mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) | mod3 | mod4 Super_L (0x85),Super_R (0x86),Super_L (0xce),Hyper_L (0xcf) | mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb) `----