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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject: Re: Certain keys don't work in emacs in a terminal
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:38:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pthweja.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.84.1162509359.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:15:53 -0200, "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I use emacs under xterm, pressing <menu>  generates a message that
> "<print> is undefined"; pressing "C-1" inserts the number 1 as if I had
> pressed just "1".
> Under a virtual console, the behavior is also wrong, but different.
>
> How can I make emacs work under xterm or under a virtual console as if it
> was under X?

In short, "you can't".  There are some things that are not (currently)
possible within an xterm window, i.e. you cannot differentiate between
all the possible 'modifiers' of the X11 keyboard.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-03  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-21  7:59 Certain keys don't work in emacs in a terminal Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2006-11-02 23:15 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
     [not found] ` <mailman.84.1162509359.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-03  0:38   ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2006-11-10 22:52   ` Olive

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