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: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:20:46 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87y58on5z5.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375151027 7397 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 02:23:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:23:47 +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 04:23:47 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 1V3zbH-0007G9-0u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:23:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3zbG-0006lF-GO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3zb1-0006kx-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3zat-0002zU-Vs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3zat-0002zQ-PZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V3zas-00072l-Lf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:23:22 +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 ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:23:22 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:23:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 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:KuBUUV//i1WvRsW9C4jHSYNsOas= 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:92523 Archived-At: I hope there may be a longtime emacs on Solaris user in the house who can tell me the sanest way to make emacs behave on that OS. 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. 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 realize I can do some key re-assignments but I seem to remember there being some drawbacks to that too. So anyway, someone who has run emacs on Solaris will maybe know a comprehensive solution I can try.