From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs does not recognize the alt modifier key Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:19:59 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87aavf9gjk.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265953277 6593 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2010 05:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:41:17 +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 Feb 12 06:41:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfoHC-0000dA-Na for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:41:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34828 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfoHC-0007T9-9x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:41:14 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.alt.net!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O3tnrLrc2JZmWRnn9hFgkWqk9Jk= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8b6dc200.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=LJKUKG; X14l<^_jE4S2b@oL?0kYOcDh@j2AWVo<6C[TbcJiohVfa64mFlnZ8ha@hdD1CNh=Sj Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176747 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:71818 Archived-At: Tim Johnson writes: > Using emacs 22.3.1 on Slackware 13.0 32-bit, stock install. > FYI: Used emacs extensively at one time, after several years, > have resumed usage. > > Emacs does not recognize the alt key on this Operating system. Emacs > does recognize the following modifiers: control, hyper and super. The > last two are set via xmodmap. xev will recognize the 'alt' key as do > other applications - such as vim. > > + char sequences appear to be interpreted the same as an alt-char > combination. (As I would expect) > > Example: c-h,k -p => M-p (translated from p) runs the > command scroll-other-window-down. > But c-h,k -p => H-p runs the command backward-sexp > ;; Note 'H-p' instead of 'M-p'. > > I have not changed any of my emacs settings (that I know of) since I > used emacs on previous OSs (slack 10.0 and kubuntu). > I believe this is covered in the etc/PROBLEMS file. To some extent, the solution depends on whether your running under the console, within an xterm (or similar - some have their own quirks) or running native X windows. The FAQ may also have some pointers. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au