From: Neil Baylis <neil.baylis@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:55:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0c3e30e-d151-4a4a-9f9d-e8d3a1e78168@26g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a4faa22b-eb8b-4661-ad52-95813941883f@c1g2000yqi.googlegroups.com
On Aug 12, 4:40 pm, Neil Baylis <neil.bay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using emacs 23.1.1 on an Ubuntu system. It works fine using the
> GUI. When I run it as emacs -nw, I find the meta key doesn't work
> properly. Instead, it self-inserts something. Using ESC still works,
> but I would like my meta back. (It worked before I upgraded to 23.1.1.
> Prior to that, I had been using Ubuntu emacs snapshot, which was
> 23.something).
>
> This is only on one particular system. I have another similar system,
> and on that one, emacs -nw works as expected.
>
> I'm imagining I've done something to bork up the input on this one,
> but not sure how to find out what's wrong.
>
> Any ideas on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
More info: it's specific to xterm. If I run it in the gnome-terminal,
it works OK. In both cases, $TERM is set to xterm-color.
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 23:40 emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode Neil Baylis
2009-08-12 23:55 ` Neil Baylis [this message]
2009-08-13 6:06 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-13 18:22 ` Neil Baylis
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