From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Nikolov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help producing the Alt modifier Date: 10 May 2003 15:07:08 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84he8gvz6e.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84wuha6g84.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lu1cegvpx.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84isspnctp.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052568972 19325 80.91.224.249 (10 May 2003 12:16:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 12:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 10 14:16:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ETGt-00051W-00 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:16:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ETBO-0007n2-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 08:10:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ip217-30.mnet.BG!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip217-30.mnet.bg (193.110.217.30) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052568489 20827181 193.110.217.30 (16 [159246]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113010 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9505 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9505 Alexander Nikolov writes: > kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > > > Alexander Nikolov writes: > > > > > I think that my problem is relevant to the subject of this thread so > > > I'd post it here. Does anybody have any clues as to why my Alt key is > > > working fine as a Meta modifier within X but does not trigger any > > > action within Emacs on the terminal. ESC is working both ways, but is > > > somewhat inconvenient. I'm interested id ESC can be modified in such > > > a way that it acts _e_x_a_c_t_l_y like a Meta key. > > > > Type M-x (not ESC x) in the terminal, then C-h l. What do you see? > > > > Which terminal are you using? For example, xterm and konsole need > > mutually exclusive configuration of the Alt/Meta key, so it's > > impossible to make it work for both in the same session. (It works > > if you use different keys. But I prefer to use the same key > > always -- the key to the left of the space bar should be Meta, > > regardless of what's printed on it.) > > > > -- > > file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature) > > When I wrote "terminal" I actually meant the console(tty). When I > write M-x and then C-h l there is no sign of M-x(nor of any other > Meta-combination). Now I executed loadkeys -dv from the console and everything is working fine.