From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt-x not working Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: (message from Steve Graham on Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:13:09 -0700 (PDT))> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437715521 1839 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2015 05:25:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:25:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 24 07:25:19 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 1ZIVTy-0005Y6-EO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:25:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIVTx-0000ty-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:25:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.129.117.70 with SMTP id q67mr12882148ywc.57.1437715259460; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:20:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.28.19 with SMTP id x19mr43471igg.16.1437715259427; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!69no1592262qgl.1!news-out.google.com!o13ni559igw.0!nntp.google.com!f3no2090863igg.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=59.94.116.90; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.94.116.90 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:20:59 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213666 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:105952 Archived-At: On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 3:37:25 AM UTC+5:30, Robert Thorpe wrote: > Steve Graham writes: > >> (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro > >> " ") > >> 'execute-extended-comment) > > > > The Escape x worked great! > > Yes, instead of Alt-x you can first press ESC then x. You can also use > Ctrl-[ instead of ESC, it's often more convienent since it's nearer. > > As other have said, it seems you OS has remapped your keyboard in a > strange way. > > Are you using a keyboard that has "Alt" and "Alt Gr"? A British > keyboard for example. In many OSes "Alt Gr" doesn't do the same thing > as Alt. You often have to remap this key at the OS level. > > It's best to get Alt fixed. Although C-[ is the best way to get Meta > for lots of keys there are more where Alt is the best way. > > BR, > Robert Thorpe OP seems to be on windows and I am on (currently) ubuntu so perhaps now very useful... Anyway I had almost the same experience a few weeks ago. C-c stopped working -- emacs, shell, everywhere. Followed from some hacking to setup keyboard -- compose key etc Dont remember exactly what I did... Deleted some file somewhere ~/.config /something-or-other and it started working