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: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:27:35 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <8738oz5uh4.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r4cnmlxf.fsf@newsguy.com> <5D24468E-2A38-4F4C-AD14-9A1401683124@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379695394 24554 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2013 16:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:43:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 20 18:43:16 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 1VN3nY-0007tb-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:43:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3nX-000758-Mp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3Yl-0006An-Ss for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3Yc-0007os-TG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58684) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3Yc-0007ob-Mt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:27:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3Ya-0000l3-Hh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:27:48 +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 ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:27:48 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:27:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 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:Y5up1ORdQTQXQpymGcd3PyXIiqY= 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:93471 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 17.09.2013 um 18:51 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> `M-x' produces 'ø' >> `M-Shift + !' produces '¡' >> `M-shift + : produces 'º' > > No! It's not M-x but certainly Alt-x. Well, yeah if we disregard yrs and and yrs of practice on this list and even in emacs and gnus manuals That said, yes, I am referring to the Alt labeled on most common keyboards... at least in the US. Let me say to that I do appreciate all posters input on this.. there appears to be several way to resolve the problem. I'm still puzzled but the way this problem just turned up sort of suddenly. .. I mean I don't often use emacs -nw when in X but it can't have been more that 5-6 mnths since last time. So something has changed in my environment on my Debian Linux box of several yrs standing. Possibly an update or something. I had thoughts of tracking it down... but probably a loosing battle since I'm not sure of when the change occurred. Thank you all.