From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: on keyboard behavior in emacs -nw Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:42:09 +0200 Message-ID: <86bmnhqqm6.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87bmnhkbne.fsf@local.lan> <20170815000216.GA22403@ordenador31> <20170814223000992912036@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502779380 13222 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 06:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:43:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 08:42:56 2017 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 1dhVYu-0002q1-Vf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhVZ1-0007p4-C5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 02:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhVYX-0007ob-Hp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 02:42:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhVYT-0005Xg-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 02:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51936 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhVYT-0005VU-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 02:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhVYH-0000eF-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:42:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:oDysPEiFLN/m4yk7Rj36essoPhw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114038 Archived-At: Bob Proulx wrote: >> Don't know exactly. It depends on the >> terminal you're using. For example, this is >> seen in XTerm. If you use XTerm, you can >> solve that by toggling the option "Meta >> sends escape" which you can reach by >> C-down-Mouse-1 (Ctrl + left button). > > That is what I do. I run emacs in Xterm with > the following Xresources set. > > XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true Yup. In ~/.Xresources, and then xrdb ~/.Xresources in ~/.xinitrc -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573