From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs - some navigation keys aren't working
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:40:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljjsstm3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7926.1254561538.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> writes:
> Hi,
>
> A few of my navigation keys in emacs don't appear to be working, for
> example meta (alt key), shift and , to go to the top of the file does
> nothing. Same with bottom of file. It seems to work fine when it is ran
> from x though. Used to work fine, before my holiday, not sure what has
> changed. I've done a few updates and perhaps something else to cause
> this issue, but I'm not sure. so does anyone know what I've done? Has
> the keymap or layout settings been changed? I'm not sure why it works in
> X and not on the console? Any ideas?
X delivers key events, the console character sequences. If your console
has no character representation for a certain key combination, there is
no magic Emacs can engage in for finding out the key presses.
--
David Kastrup
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2009-10-03 9:40 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2009-10-03 9:18 emacs - some navigation keys aren't working Daniel Dalton
2009-10-03 9:43 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-10-03 12:07 ` Daniel Dalton
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