From: Neil Baylis <neil.baylis@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:22:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c492e49-8f23-41f2-b298-1cb4d786d422@j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878whop7r3.fsf@iki.fi
On Aug 12, 11:06 pm, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-08-12 16:55 (-0700), Neil Baylis wrote:
>
> > On Aug 12, 4:40 pm, Neil Baylis <neil.bay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm using emacs 23.1.1 on an Ubuntu system. It works fine using the
> >> GUI. When I run it as emacs -nw, I find the meta key doesn't work
> >> properly. Instead, it self-inserts something.
> > More info: it's specific to xterm. If I run it in the gnome-terminal,
> > it works OK. In both cases, $TERM is set to xterm-color.
>
> Yes, this is about XTerm and not about Emacs at all. Start XTerm with
> option
>
> -xrm "XTerm.*.metaSendsEscape: true"
>
> or put that X resource in your ~/.Xresources file, like this:
>
> XTerm.*.metaSendsEscape: true
Excellent, that did the trick. Thank you.
Neil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-13 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 23:40 emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode Neil Baylis
2009-08-12 23:55 ` Neil Baylis
2009-08-13 6:06 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-13 18:22 ` Neil Baylis [this message]
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