From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:53:40 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <871u4j6sy7.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379732056 10688 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2013 02:54:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:54:16 +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 04:54:19 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 1VNDKr-00082U-Mm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 04:54:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNDKr-0003hY-Bj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57871) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNDKa-0003hQ-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNDKT-0006rb-9P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNDKT-0006rX-2r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VNDKR-00073n-9e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 04:53:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 206-248-183-89.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.183.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 04:53:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-183-89.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 04:53:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-183-89.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eHgdb7381n73FO45vHY2S8+2jco= 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:93485 Archived-At: >>> | 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' > Should I see results immediately or does this require a restart of X? Should be immediate, if it works that is, Stefan