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From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to Map Alt key globally
Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 19:05:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8X3HAC72ozFhPG8DHRBFmB3CbCMQwTf7s9mJ+Y6zZZc4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180505185029.GB1973@mail.akwebsoft.com>

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 1:50 AM Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:

> > The following error message
> > global-set-key: Key sequence M-a starts with non-prefix key ESC
> >
> > Is generated when I attempted to execute
> > (global-set-key (kbd "M-a") 'move-beginning-of-line)

>    :) What have I done? And how do I trace It?

It looks like you have bound something to ESC. What does C-h k ESC say?

(Also, are you using a graphical Emacs version, or in terminal?)



  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-05 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-05 18:38 How to Map Alt key globally Tim Johnson
2018-05-05 18:50 ` Tim Johnson
2018-05-05 19:05   ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2018-05-05 19:30     ` Tim Johnson

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