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 12:51:55 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87txhfmo5w.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r4cnmlxf.fsf@newsguy.com> <87txhjuz96.fsf@unicorn.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379695951 32028 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2013 16:52:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:52:31 +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 18:52:33 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 1VN3wW-0002Pm-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:52:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3wW-0002p3-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3wH-0002nn-M3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3wC-00070s-7n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35112) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3wC-00070h-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VN3w9-0001cv-Kn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:52:09 +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 18:52:09 +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 18:52:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 46 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:mWX8wOb+BkMSdHY0kKIWKHb8x2Q= 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:93472 Archived-At: aurelien@replicant.io (Aurélien DESBRIÈRES) writes: > Harry Putnam writes: [...] >> (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? [...] Aurélien Wrote > xterm*metaSendsEscape: true > > to your ~/.Xresources > > should correct your trouble. doesn't seem to do a thing here: grep 'xterm\*meta' ~/.Xresources xterm*metaSendsEscape: true Followed by closing down X and restarting with startx. but still if I run `emacs -nw' in an xterm: And try to press Alt-x, I get this: `ø' I haven't worked on the other cures yet, but pretty sure changing xmodmap will do the job... just wanted to mention that your suggestion seems not to work here. Env is: Debian Linux running on PC (an older P4) using the real xterm... not any of the pretenders. xterm -version XTerm(295)