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: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:24:07 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87wqma5hbc.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r4cnmlxf.fsf@newsguy.com> <5D24468E-2A38-4F4C-AD14-9A1401683124@Web.DE> <8738oz5uh4.fsf@newsguy.com> <20130920172847.GA30192@hysteria.proulx.com> <87li2rmegr.fsf@newsguy.com> <87fvsz5faj.fsf@informatimago.com> <87wqmb5ebj.fsf@newsguy.com> <877gea5w1a.fsf@informatimago.com> 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 1379777087 26467 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2013 15:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:24:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 21 17:24:49 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 1VNP3A-0003DK-0J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:24:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP39-0002y1-Jh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP2u-0002xk-D2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP2p-0003b5-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP2p-0003ax-Bg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VNP2l-0002OE-R3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:24:23 +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 ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:24:23 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:24:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 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:CHGWniM3H3/81gJ6gj3k0rEtsr0= 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:93495 Archived-At: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: >> >>> Stefan Monnier writes: >>> >>>>> | mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd) >>>> >>>> This might be a source of problems: try to remap your Meta_L key to >>>> Alt_L as follows: >>>> >>>> xmodmap -e 'keysym Meta_L = Alt_L' >>> >>> No, instead map Meta_L to a free keycode! >>> Don't confuse Alt and Meta Combine them! >>> Bind A-M-x and others to some useful command! >> >> What about some examples? > > Yes, I'm posting my .xmodmap each week… > > ! > ! This is an `xmodmap' input file for the DasKeyboard 3 > ! > ! Bus 008 Device 005: ID 04d9:2013 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. > ! > ! PC 105 keys, wide Delete, wide Enter. > ! Don't mean to sound like an ingrate but that is just plain over my head. What part of that makes the switch you spoke of? Can it be done with a simple 1-2 line xmodmap command.