From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:16:05 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2pzj4m2.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375208428 31020 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 18:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:20:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 20:20:32 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 1V4EX4-0007gz-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:20:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4EX4-0004aQ-0f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:20:26 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:emGkYHu1IU4T85rDXQekjJLTUpg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200299 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:92566 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > I'm running a recent install of openindiana (one of the offshoot > solaris OS's) and its been a good long while since I've run > Solaris. I use Debian, but my school uses Solaris/SunOS, so I've used Emacs there, and ssh'd to it a lot, and I never had any problems with Emacs not behaving as it did with my Debian. There shouldn't be any problems at all. > The biggest problem is that the M (alt) key is not recognized on > solaris and so one must use the Esc key which is really awkward. > And it seems I vaguely recall some other problems too, but right > now that Esc key thing is such an absolute pain I haven't got > that far. I just tried that, and it works for me. Are you running Emacs from a terminal emulator? In that case, it might be the emulator isn't tuned to that key. I'm not using Emacs in X, but once I did, and I recall that some stuff in .Xresources got the Meta key working: xterm*metaSendsEscape: true URxvt*altSendsEscape: true If you use xterm or urxvt, try that. (In .xinitrc, put xrdb ~/.Xresources first thing.) -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573