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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: C-M weirdness when running Emacs within an Xterm
Date: 04 Jan 2004 07:49:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <usmiwp8jr.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87isjslcda.fsf@faroutfreakyshit.com> (message from Mike Irwin on Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:40:49 -0500)

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Mike Irwin <mike@faroutfreakyshit.com>
> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:40:49 -0500
> 
> When I run Emacs within a Xterm, I'm unable to use any keybindings that use a
> C-M combination.  Emacs acts as if it didn't receive the M bit.  Keybindings
> that use just C or M work fine, though.  Is this an Emacs or Xterm issue

The latter.

> and how might I resolve it?

You probably can't, unless you can modify your keyboard configuration
to produce key codes that distinguish between C-<key> and C-M-<key>.
The way to do that is system-dependent, so please describe your system
in more detail.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-04  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-04  1:40 C-M weirdness when running Emacs within an Xterm Mike Irwin
2004-01-04  5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.915.1073199333.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-04  7:46   ` Mike Irwin
2004-01-04  8:55   ` Mike Irwin
2004-01-04 13:59 ` Kai Grossjohann

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