emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode

emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode

[Neil Baylis]

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. Using ESC still works,
but I would like my meta back. (It worked before I upgraded to 23.1.1.
Prior to that, I had been using Ubuntu emacs snapshot, which was
23.something).

This is only on one particular system. I have another similar system,
and on that one, emacs -nw works as expected.

I'm imagining I've done something to bork up the input on this one,
but not sure how to find out what's wrong.

Any ideas on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks,

Neil

Re: emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode

[Neil Baylis]

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. Using ESC still works,
> but I would like my meta back. (It worked before I upgraded to 23.1.1.
> Prior to that, I had been using Ubuntu emacs snapshot, which was
> 23.something).
>
> This is only on one particular system. I have another similar system,
> and on that one, emacs -nw works as expected.
>
> I'm imagining I've done something to bork up the input on this one,
> but not sure how to find out what's wrong.
>
> Any ideas on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil

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.

Neil

Re: emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode

[Teemu Likonen]

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

Re: emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode

[Neil Baylis]

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