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* Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw
@ 2013-09-17 16:51 Harry Putnam
  2013-09-17 17:10 ` Tim Visher
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Harry Putnam @ 2013-09-17 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Running recent emacs-24
on Debian Linux

I don't often use emacs -nw any more and just noticed today that I
have some kind of charset or LANG setting problem that is causing
unusual characters to be printed to my files when using the ALT key
for combos like M-x.

(I hope these characters are reproduced in this post)

`M-x' produces   'ø'
`M-Shift + !' produces '¡'
`M-shift + :  produces 'º'

What kind of setting is likely to be causing this?

-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      --------

The above problem was uncovered today because I wanted to use
emacs -nw.   But also I wanted to make emacs start in message mode by
passing what ever is necessary to do that from the command line.

emacs -nw -f message-mode file  does not set message-mode although if
I insert text-mode rather than message-mode it will start in text-mode.

How can I cause emacs -nw to start in message-mode from the command
line. 

One further question is how to pass elisp on the command line to be
processed by emacs as it starts.

emacs -nw <Syntax for passing elisp> file




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2013-09-17 16:51 Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw Harry Putnam
2013-09-17 17:10 ` Tim Visher
2013-09-17 17:36 ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
2013-09-20 16:51   ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 17:04     ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-20 18:51     ` Dale Snell
2013-09-20 20:27       ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-27 22:04     ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-17 18:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-17 19:30   ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
2013-09-17 20:11     ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-18  6:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-18  8:29         ` Peter Dyballa
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2013-09-17 20:42     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-17 21:11       ` Peter Dyballa
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2013-09-17 23:51         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-20 16:27   ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 17:28     ` Bob Proulx
2013-09-20 20:21       ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 21:08         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-20 22:15           ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-21  2:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-21 15:20               ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-21 18:06                 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-21 19:23                   ` W. Greenhouse
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2013-09-20 21:55           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-20 22:16             ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-21 10:06               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-21 15:24                 ` Harry Putnam
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2013-09-21 16:14                   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-21 16:55                     ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 20:22       ` Harry Putnam
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2013-09-20 21:54     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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