From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:32:01 +0100 Organization: Guest of Firstream - Teaser - Oreka Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: 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 1073512369 17300 80.91.224.253 (7 Jan 2004 21:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 22:52:46 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 1AeLba-0000NC-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:52:46 +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 1AeMRU-0001Fg-7n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 17:46:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!teaser.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d32-133.ppp.teaser.fr Original-X-Trace: feed.teaser.net 1073511117 2349 213.91.32.133 (7 Jan 2004 21:31:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teaser.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:31:57 +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 In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119852 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:15795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15795 Greg Fenton wrote: > When you say "linux console", what are you refering too? Is this a > console running under X or is this one of the virtual console terminals > (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1) ? Yes, sorry, I meant the virtual console terminals. X is not running. I configured a login type "text", not "graphical", when I installed my RH9, so when I first login I'm in one of these virtual consoles, before eventually calling "startx" ; that's where I would like to use emacs, to hack on DirectFB for example. So the problem has been narrowed down to a difference between this virtual console and an xterm : typing Alt + "<" yields ESC < in both cases, but typing Alt + Shift + ">" yields ESC > inside the xterm, but nothing at all (not a single character) in the virtual console. So emacs works fine in the xterm but becomes unusable in the console. Any idea where I can fix this ? Thanks, Joao -- joao at teaser dot fr