From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joao.moreira@free.fr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ALT with Shift does not function as META in the console Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:49:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <324121005.303995359.1374346146031.JavaMail.root@zimbra73-e12.priv.proxad.net> References: <2076850366.303987173.1374345414140.JavaMail.root@zimbra73-e12.priv.proxad.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374353787 14451 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2013 20:56:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:56:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 20 22:56:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0eCb-0005fe-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:56:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0eCa-00045f-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36697) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0cDT-0007Qi-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0cDR-00042X-JE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr ([2a01:e0c:1:1599::15]:46491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0cDR-00042Q-1z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra73-e12.priv.proxad.net (unknown [172.20.243.223]) by smtp6-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BDBF8224B for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:49:06 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <2076850366.303987173.1374345414140.JavaMail.root@zimbra73-e12.priv.proxad.net> X-Originating-IP: [82.230.80.148] X-Mailer: Zimbra 7.2.0-GA2598 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Linux)/7.2.0-GA2598) X-Authenticated-User: joao.moreira@free.fr X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:e0c:1:1599::15 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:56:19 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92277 Archived-At: 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