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From: Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>
Subject: Re: Using emacs in slackware
Date: 06 Feb 2003 21:17:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87of5oj0ln.fsf@server.crasseux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ngF%9.6596$ek4.628581@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net

Steve Quezadas <steveeq2@tripperjones.com> writes:

> Hsa anyone ever used console emacs in Slackware? For whatever reason, the
> "alt" key works in some scenarios, but not others. For example "alt-x"
> works, but "alt-shift-%" or "alt-shift->" doesn't work.
> 
> Anyone know what's wrong?
> 
> - Steve
Those things won't wash in the console. Console is ASCII. In ASCII
alt(meta) and control characters only exist in one case, so they can't
be shifted. This is all very annoying unless you have a real ASCII
serial terminal (like me) connected to your computer. But nobody ever
bothered to do anything about this (probably for backwards compatibilities sake).

Bijan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-07  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-04  2:08 Using emacs in slackware Steve Quezadas
2003-02-04  3:56 ` Jean-Pierre Moreau
2003-02-07  2:17 ` Bijan Soleymani [this message]
2003-02-07  5:51   ` Unknown
2003-02-07 20:04     ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-02-07 17:22   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-07 20:06     ` Bijan Soleymani

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