From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Certain keys don't work in emacs in a terminal Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:38:01 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <874pthweja.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162532512 18671 80.91.229.2 (3 Nov 2006 05:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 05:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 03 06:41:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfroI-0001UB-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:41:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfroI-0004me-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:41:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uio.no!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:adcBU8xQkB5wxCE2VUPnRBbp3As= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.103.39.229 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=aS^7Zd?:4L^MjG2:ak; I7eU]GGb30c[>DY7KhC_999ahWQI Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142904 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38523 Archived-At: On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:15:53 -0200, "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" wrote: > When I use emacs under xterm, pressing generates a message that > " is undefined"; pressing "C-1" inserts the number 1 as if I had > pressed just "1". > Under a virtual console, the behavior is also wrong, but different. > > How can I make emacs work under xterm or under a virtual console as if it > was under X? In short, "you can't". There are some things that are not (currently) possible within an xterm window, i.e. you cannot differentiate between all the possible 'modifiers' of the X11 keyboard.