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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console
Date: 07 Jan 2004 07:53:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud69wb8yq.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <btfbrn$1h0i$1@feed.teaser.net> (message from joao on Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:11:58 +0100)

> From: joao <joao@nospam.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:11:58 +0100
> 
> I compared the output of describe-key (C-h k) when I press this 
> combination :
> 
> emacs under X says "M-> runs the command end-of-buffer"
> 
> emacs -nw inside an xterm says "ESC > runs the command end-of-buffer"
> 
> emacs in the linux console : describe-key does not even react to my key 
> presses, I still have that prompt "Describe key:" in the minibuffer as 
> if I had typed nothing at all...

What does "C-h l" (that's a letter ell, not a digit one) say?

It's quite possible that your console keyboard is configured so that
Alt+Shift+digit doesn't produce M-digit.  "C-h l" will show what Emacs
gets (or does not get) when you press a key combination.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-07  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-06 23:11 Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console joao
2004-01-07  5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.96.1073458433.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-07  8:26   ` joao
2004-01-07 11:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-07 17:51     ` Greg Fenton
2004-01-07 22:32       ` joao
2004-01-08  1:37         ` Martin Rydstr|m
2004-01-09 22:40           ` joao

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