From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: NetBSD Alt key? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:03:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87a6f9ccre.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <20220202163751.7767.qmail@rahul.net> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8768"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:M0z3eomlnPAuTGMQEALpBXLnX8I= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 02 20:53:21 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFLgu-000228-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:53:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41322 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFLgt-0000hG-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:53:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFKuY-0004bo-D6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:47116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFKuS-0000Fn-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:03:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFKuO-0007Z0-UI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:03:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, T_SPF_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135675 Archived-At: conover--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > (global-set-key "\M-b" 'mark-block) ; Alt-b key It is called Meta. If "mark-block" is a command (interactive function) I don't see why it shouldn't work ... You can put use the hash quote but that won't solve it. (global-set-key "\M-b" #'mark-block) Don't you want M-b for `backward-word' tho? > NetBSD does not What happens when you hit it? Test, or do C-h k M-b > Any idea on what "\M-b" should be for Alt-b in NetBSD? It should look the same since we are operating on the Emacs level, maybe something is up with the terminal emulator so Emacs in facts sees some other key on M-b. If you use xterm, try this ... xterm*metaSendsEscape: true in .Xresources [1] then xrdb ~/.Xresources in .xinitrc [2] ... [1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.Xresources [2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.xinitrc -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal