From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: on keyboard behavior in emacs -nw Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:05:27 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87y3qlhqoo.fsf@local.lan> References: <87bmnhkbne.fsf@local.lan> <20170815000216.GA22403@ordenador31> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502806054 8474 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 14:07:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:07:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 16:07:30 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhcV7-0001Tb-6Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:07:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhcVC-0007X1-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48177) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhcTc-0006oI-E9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhcTX-0004Fi-P8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:05:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46862 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhcTX-0004Ez-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhcTN-00053Z-9C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:05:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 59 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vbQ3CSJ9X+Q8q8pfXNgEGzhHBUs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114040 Archived-At: Héctor Lahoz writes: [...] >> In emacs -nw M-x, instead of giving the familiar `M-x' prompt it >> inserts a tiny char in the buffer that looks something like a tiny >> planet with with a ring around on forward leaning angle. >> >> In fact M+ many letters and other char create letters with >> various accents or the like: >> >> M-x = ø >> M-a = á >> M-q = ñ >> [...] >> Any one know what causes this? > Don't know exactly. It depends on the terminal you're using. > For example, this is seen in XTerm. If you use XTerm, you can > solve that by toggling the option "Meta sends escape" which you > can reach by C-down-Mouse-1 (Ctrl + left button). Thanks Héctor ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- Bob Proulx writes: [...] > > That is what I do. I run emacs in Xterm with the following Xresources set. > > XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true Thanks Bob Thanks to all responders. I see what I've done now. I recently updated debian from `jessie' to (debian 9) `stretch' I did the upgrade by means of a new fresh install. I've been lugging along a very old .Xdefaults, from the days when that was the file we used to tell X our preferences. And have kept it on every OS for years.. I've just been symlinking ~/.Xresources to it ~/.Xdefaults ever since that change happened... years ago, now. I forgot to create that symlink when I updated to `stretch' I've had XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true in there for a good while. Thanks to you all, once again.