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 16:22:58 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87hadfmee5.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r4cnmlxf.fsf@newsguy.com> <5D24468E-2A38-4F4C-AD14-9A1401683124@Web.DE> <8738oz5uh4.fsf@newsguy.com> <20130920172847.GA30192@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379708732 14996 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2013 20:25:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:25:32 +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 22:25:35 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 1VN7Gg-0002iR-Af for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:25:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7Gf-00061H-So for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7GJ-0005sd-JP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7GC-0001Pp-QO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7GC-0001Or-KF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7GB-0001c5-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:25:03 +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 ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 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: sha1:3RxqP++I1Zd/Q4J8+5OHNyFRppc= 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:93477 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > Almost certainly something with your keyboard mapping has changed. I > suspect that the Alt key has been configured as an AltGr key, or a > compose key, or other such modifier. It definitely isn't normal for > Alt-x to produce the special zero character. Which Alt key is this? > The left or right Alt key? Or both? Before seeing your post, I'd already fired off a post to the debian users list about this. Not intentionally making things more difficult to follow.