From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to Map Alt key globally
Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 10:50:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180505185029.GB1973@mail.akwebsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180505183844.GA1973@mail.akwebsoft.com>
* Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> [180505 10:47]:
> 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?
I forgot to mention:
With
emacs -q
the mapping works.
:) What have I done? And how do I trace It?
--
Tim Johnson
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-05 18:50 UTC|newest]
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2018-05-05 18:38 How to Map Alt key globally Tim Johnson
2018-05-05 18:50 ` Tim Johnson [this message]
2018-05-05 19:05 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-05 19:30 ` Tim Johnson
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