ALT with Shift does not function as META in the console

ALT with Shift does not function as META in the console

[joao.moreira]

Hello,

I'm using emacs 24.3 on the Linux console, and I've noticed that the ALT key doesn't function as META, if I have to use Shift at the same time, whereas it works fine under X.

For example, my keyboard has '>' (Greater-than) above '<' (Less-than), so to move the cursor to the beginning of the buffer I type ALT '<', and this works fine, but to move to the end of the buffer, I need to type ALT Shift '>', and this does *not* work. Pressing and releasing ESC, and then typing Shift '>', does work, of course, but this is not the gesture that my fingers have memorized.

Would anyone know why there is this difference of behaviour between X and the console ? And how can I fix this in the console ?

I noticed this when booting a Linux From Scratch system, with no X installed, but then I tried under Fedora, moved to a console with Ctrl-Alt-2, ran emacs, and found the same behaviour (with an Emacs 23.3).

Joao

Re: ALT with Shift does not function as META in the console

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.07.2013 um 20:49 schrieb joao.moreira@free.fr:

> Would anyone know why there is this difference of behaviour between X and the console ?

Yes, there a few. The difference is that in terminal emulation GNU Emacs is the slave (or guest, if you prefer political correctness) of its host.

> And how can I fix this in the console ?

Ask the host to pass those X11 key events to its guest!

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