From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anakreon Mendis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Strange behaveur for M-x Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:16:00 +0300 Message-ID: References: <3atmiuF6eg31tU1@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112182859 14470 80.91.229.2 (30 Mar 2005 11:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 13:40:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGbYY-0007um-4K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGbp2-0005Dv-1i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGbJM-0002Kf-DT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGbJ3-0002K8-Ej for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGatw-0000wd-Vq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DGaIB-00044S-8O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DGaFx-0006wj-Eh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:17:01 +0200 Original-Received: from mathind.csd.auth.gr ([155.207.128.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:17:01 +0200 Original-Received: from anakreonmejdi by mathind.csd.auth.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:17:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mathind.csd.auth.gr User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3atmiuF6eg31tU1@individual.net> X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:11014 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:11014 Heike C. Zimmerer wrote: > Anakreon Mendis writes: > > >>If I press M-x, instead of the minibuffer taking focus, emacs produces a beep. >>I can't invoke any command except for those which a key binding exists. >>The key bindings which like M-a, M-e produce a beep also. > > > What does C-h k report? > A-x is undefined > >>KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x800001, >> root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 6331689, (166,-16), root:(172,11), >> state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, > > ^^^^^ > > You're sure your Alt isn't mapped to A- and ESC to > M-? You're running Debian, and at least on mine, they are > mapped like this. > > Heike Yes the mapping is what you describe. Esc+x works like M-x. How could I change this? Anakreon