From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:11:58 +0100 Organization: Guest of Firstream - Teaser - Oreka Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073427444 10946 80.91.224.253 (6 Jan 2004 22:17:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 06 23:17:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AdzVo-0001s9-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:17:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ae0Qn-00038T-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:16:13 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!teaser.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d32-79.ppp.teaser.fr Original-X-Trace: feed.teaser.net 1073427128 50194 213.91.32.79 (6 Jan 2004 22:12:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teaser.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:12:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119799 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15742 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15742 Hi, I'd like to use emacs in the linux consoles, but the key combinations with Alt + Shift are not working. I'm using Red Hat 9 on various hardware. For example, to do M-> (end-of-buffer) I normally press Alt + Shift + '>'. This works fine with emacs under X. It also works when I run 'emacs -nw' inside an xterm. It does not work under the linux console. I compared the output of describe-key (C-h k) when I press this combination : emacs under X says "M-> runs the command end-of-buffer" emacs -nw inside an xterm says "ESC > runs the command end-of-buffer" emacs in the linux console : describe-key does not even react to my key presses, I still have that prompt "Describe key:" in the minibuffer as if I had typed nothing at all... This is *very* annoying, because I have french keyboards (on laptops), so I need Shift to get the digits, hence Alt + Shift + digit for the numeric prefixes. Of course, I know you can use ESC instead of Alt, but that's not the same... the ESC key is sooo far away, and you can't keep it pressed like you do with Alt, so typing becomes that less fluid. I checked the FAQ, found nothing that applied. "stty -a" in the console shows cs8, not 7. Of course, TERM=linux. Any suggestions on how I can fix this ? Thanks, Joao -- joao at teaser dot fr