From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:15:12 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <871u4j6sy7.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r4cnmlxf.fsf@newsguy.com> <5D24468E-2A38-4F4C-AD14-9A1401683124@Web.DE> <8738oz5uh4.fsf@newsguy.com> <20130920172847.GA30192@hysteria.proulx.com> <87li2rmegr.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379715347 19742 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2013 22:15:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:15:47 +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 Sep 21 00:15:50 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 1VN8zN-00019y-VU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:15:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN8zN-0006mN-Gz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN8z6-0006lP-HF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN8z0-0006d2-GY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN8z0-0006cy-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VN8yy-00008x-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:15:24 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:15:24 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:15:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v4pVuuLMQ6If1Op52fgOL0gQY9k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:93483 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> | mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd) > > This might be a source of problems: try to remap your Meta_L key to > Alt_L as follows: > > xmodmap -e 'keysym Meta_L = Alt_L' > Thanks for jumping in again Stefan, you helped with very similar problem on a solaris machine a while back. Should I see results immediately or does this require a restart of X?