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 16:27:34 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87a9j7me6h.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r4cnmlxf.fsf@newsguy.com> <87txhjuz96.fsf@unicorn.home> <87txhfmo5w.fsf@newsguy.com> <20130920115159.76e6866c@zothique.localnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379709028 18349 80.91.229.3 (20 Sep 2013 20:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:30:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 20 22:30:31 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 1VN7LT-0004fL-28 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7LS-0008IK-Eu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7LB-0008I7-SM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7L5-0002y3-TK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:30:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7L5-0002vH-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VN7L1-0003pH-OX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:30:03 +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 ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:30:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 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:tKyLC00egiar3Bziv0Az9vH1uRw= 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:93478 Archived-At: Dale Snell 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.