From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: on keyboard behavior in emacs -nw Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:31:16 -0600 Message-ID: <20170814223000992912036@bob.proulx.com> References: <87bmnhkbne.fsf@local.lan> <20170815000216.GA22403@ordenador31> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502771522 28940 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 04:32:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:32:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Cc: Harry Putnam To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 06:31:58 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhTWE-0006sj-UU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:31:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhTWG-0002zM-If for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:31:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhTVh-0002yv-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhTVe-0007vY-GN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:54089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhTVe-0007vO-As for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682D291F; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:31:17 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C063217E4; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:31:17 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 186BE2DC5C; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:31:16 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Harry Putnam Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170815000216.GA22403@ordenador31> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114037 Archived-At: H=E9ctor Lahoz wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > In fact M+ many letters and other char create letters with > > various accents or the like: > >=20 > > M-x =3D =F8 > > M-a =3D =E1 > > M-q =3D =F1 >=20 > Don't know exactly. It depends on the terminal you're using. > For example, this is seen in XTerm. If you use XTerm, you can > solve that by toggling the option "Meta sends escape" which you > can reach by C-down-Mouse-1 (Ctrl + left button). That is what I do. I run emacs in Xterm with the following Xresources se= t. XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true Bob