From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to Map Alt key globally Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 10:38:44 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20180505183844.GA1973@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525545437 23902 195.159.176.226 (5 May 2018 18:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 18:37:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 20:37:13 2018 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 1fF23S-00064y-Rn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 20:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF25Z-0000p7-Il for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 14:39:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF254-0000ol-Po for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 14:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF251-0007rs-KH for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 14:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:60528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF251-0007q9-Be for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 14:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B023D2400FA; Sat, 5 May 2018 10:38:44 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 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:116649 Archived-At: The following error message global-set-key: Key sequence M-a starts with non-prefix key ESC Is generated when I attempted to execute (global-set-key (kbd "M-a") 'move-beginning-of-line) Alt-a is undefined prior to execution What is proper way to map this keystroke? thanks -- Tim Johnson http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com