From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Graham Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt-x not working Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437678918 9961 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2015 19:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:15:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 23 21:15:18 2015 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 1ZILxd-0007Uk-AL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:15:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZILxc-0000r7-7u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:15:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.52.171.231 with SMTP id ax7mr9791699vdc.9.1437678789954; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:13:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.181.10 with SMTP id ds10mr137476obc.12.1437678789676; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!69no1527814qgl.1!news-out.google.com!a16ni26458ign.0!nntp.google.com!f3no1933265igg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.181.182.72; posting-account=lMndggoAAACR6bdLBlBjeKrA4qihooHu Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.181.182.72 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:13:09 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213653 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:105939 Archived-At: On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 10:27:47 AM UTC-7, Javier wrote: > > > > C-g C-h l > > It seems something in the operating system is remapping Alt-x to > , and it repeats it several times. Did you install some > program recently? are you using autohotkey or similar to remap keys > in windows? changed the language/keyboard settings for windows? > > You can still get the Alt-x behavior (Meta-x in emacspeak) by pressing > ESC (release key) x > > A kludge that might work is inserting this in .emacs > > (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro "") 'execute-extended-comment) > > or this, since it appears repeated 5 times for each Alt-x press: > > (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro > " ") > 'execute-extended-comment) The Escape x worked great! Thanks, Javier