From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:27:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9j7me6h.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130920115159.76e6866c@zothique.localnet
Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
> It looks to me like you've got Alt conflated with Meta. The two
> modifiers are NOT the same. Check .xmodmap / .xmodmaprc to see how X
> is set up. Also, you don't say what desktop manager you're using,
> Gnome, LXDE, whatever. Note that DEs also do keymapping, but
> separately from the .xmodmaprc file (and each other).
LXDE,
Before seeing you post I responded to Bob P with some more info from
my setup, including ouput of xmodmap
> Just out of curiosity, if you type ESC-x instead of ALT-x, what do you
> get? If things are set up correctly, you should get "M-x " in the
> minibuffer, waiting for an extended command.
Well, like always that does the same as what I expect the Alt key to
do, but is so awkward to use, I always do something about it when on a
Solaris variant. A place where after a fesh install, I've always had
to use ESC to work with emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-20 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-17 16:51 Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw Harry Putnam
2013-09-17 17:10 ` Tim Visher
2013-09-17 17:36 ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
2013-09-20 16:51 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 17:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-20 18:51 ` Dale Snell
2013-09-20 20:27 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2013-09-27 22:04 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-17 18:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-17 19:30 ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
2013-09-17 20:11 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-18 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-18 8:29 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2346.1379445532.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-17 20:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-17 21:11 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2350.1379452281.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-17 23:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-20 16:27 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 17:28 ` Bob Proulx
2013-09-20 20:21 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-20 22:15 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-21 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-21 15:20 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-21 18:06 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-21 19:23 ` W. Greenhouse
[not found] ` <mailman.2606.1379711320.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-20 21:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-20 22:16 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-21 10:06 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-21 15:24 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.2655.1379777078.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-21 16:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-21 16:55 ` Harry Putnam
2013-09-20 20:22 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.2579.1379695386.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-20 21:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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