From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?6YOt5pmT5bOw?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X? Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:33:33 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20120203071026.GA3958@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328254428 14953 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2012 07:33:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:33:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Bob Proulx , Angel de Vicente , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 03 08:33:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtDeT-0004JY-Rk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:33:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtDeT-00046N-Ea for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:33:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtDeP-000465-Cs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:33:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtDeJ-0006ks-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:33:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:51477) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtDeJ-0006kP-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:33:35 -0500 Original-Received: by eaag11 with SMTP id g11so1308150eaa.0 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:33:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jlREpslZ9cJaBGP4dZp3IYVcvvox1H7mpTQYrmflLN0=; b=iEUtiZmOW9096GyGAn88m97BmuKqXNnmheAc1ibHGHMarDCCVCopHVksEtM+VB/aCb q2zx4Zq0E5qpgqkl3SNvowvRb9uiftp6zDwX6d+QGnInHYWceXHAq2j/F9yNNbU3EP9H AywvOUkhjYgJ1qXgC2bVri5t25EM9EkPRccbg= Original-Received: by 10.213.8.19 with SMTP id f19mr2317101ebf.62.1328254413208; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:33:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.14.27.141 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:33:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120203071026.GA3958@hysteria.proulx.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:83598 Archived-At: I am using xterm-extras.el http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Emacs/Download/xterm-extras.el And there are other mapping to simplify your works. On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Angel de Vicente wrote: >> I run Emacs in text mode, inside GNUScreen, running in a >> gnome-terminal. As a result, many key combinations don't get sent to >> Emacs properly. For example, M-SPC gets to Emacs as C-M-j. Since I run >> Emacs always like this, and basically I live inside Emacs, I would be >> willing to spend some time trying to find a way out of this >> problem. Searching the web has not really helped much... >> >> Any help on where I should be looking? > > Since the problem you described is with the terminal emulator that you > described the place to fix it would seem to be in the terminal > emulator. =A0It would seem that gnome-terminal is the deficient code in > the path between your keyboard and emacs. > > For what it is worth I live inside emacs inside an xterm and M-SPC is > propagated correctly by xterm. =A0I do have "Meta Sends Escape" > (XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true) configured in my Xresources for xterm. > > Perhaps using xterm would be a solution for you? > > Bob >