From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console Date: 07 Jan 2004 13:02:34 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073473694 24485 80.91.224.253 (7 Jan 2004 11:08:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:08:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 12:08:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AeBXl-0002uS-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:08:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AeCSA-0007eg-Ms for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AeCQz-0007Z1-TZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AeCPv-0006fg-Ke for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:04:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AeCOA-0005rt-Ac for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:02:18 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from joao on Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:26:44 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15767 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15767 > From: joao > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:26:44 +0100 > > Same symptoms : under the console, C-h l shows nothing at all when I > press Alt + Shift combinations. It's as if I had pressed no key at all. > > Under X, I get M-> or M-3, and in the xterm I get ESC > or ESC 3. > > Alt alone works fine though. Alt + "<" in the console does M-< and goes > to the beginning of the buffer. > > So could the problem be outside emacs ? It most probably is. > obviously emacs is not getting any key when I press Alt + Shift. Indeed. I hope someone here who is more knowledgeable in GNU/Linux console than myself will tell you how to fix that.