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: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:02:35 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <877gg4w8ic.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87d2pzj4m2.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375448736 15497 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 13:05:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:05:36 +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 Aug 02 15:05:37 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 1V5F32-0000Ln-UA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:05:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5F32-0002hk-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5F2n-0002fA-D9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5F2h-0005rW-8Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5F2h-0005qz-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V5F2f-0007h0-GG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:05:13 +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, 02 Aug 2013 15:05:13 +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, 02 Aug 2013 15:05:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 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:Jto5DiRtR/JNjWzgpDwjXcklf28= 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:92664 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> The biggest problem is that the M (alt) key is not recognized on >> solaris and so one must use the Esc key which is really awkward. >> And it seems I vaguely recall some other problems too, but right >> now that Esc key thing is such an absolute pain I haven't got >> that far. > Emanuel replied: > I just tried that, and it works for me. Are you running Emacs from > a terminal emulator? In that case, it might be the emulator isn't > tuned to that key. I'm not using Emacs in X, but once I did, and I > recall that some stuff in .Xresources got the Meta key working: You just tried what? Do you mean on your solaris in X the Alt key works as M in emacs, same as linux? If that is what you are seeing, then mine is different... here the alt key is not recognized in emacs... only the Meta (windows logo) key or the ESC key are seen by emacs as M. But again I have not yet tried your suggestions. To be clear: With no attempts at remapping or using .Xdefaults, 'alt' key is not recognized by emacs. Meta key (windows logo key) and ESC are recognized by emacs as M.