From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Filipp Gunbin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Running Emacs without any display server Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 23:06:12 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87o8d7ri5y.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3307"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (darwin) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Abhiseck Paira Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 22:07:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lj5zf-0000di-Mp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 22:07:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj5ze-0003LV-Oy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Tue, 18 May 2021 16:06:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87o8d7ri5y.fsf@disroot.org> (Abhiseck Paira's message of "Wed, 19 May 2021 00:19:45 +0530") Mail-Followup-To: Abhiseck Paira , Help Gnu Emacs Received-SPF: pass client-ip=66.111.4.26; envelope-from=fgunbin@fastmail.fm; helo=out2-smtp.messagingengine.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129901 Archived-At: On 19/05/2021 00:19 +0530, Abhiseck Paira wrote: > Hi, > I was trying to run Emacs without any display server (like Xorg or > wayland) (So I was running Emacs in a tty). Emacs started as expected > but the Alt (Meta) key wasn't working. So I couldn't do 'Alt-x' to do > 'M-x' (so I had to do Esc-x instead). Similarly other key combinations > involving Alt key didn't work either (Alt-v, Alt-f etc). Does anyone > know why this is happeing or how to fix this? > -- > Abhisek Paira > E34E 825B 979E EB9F 8505 F80E E93D 353B 7740 0709 > "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." But you don't say where you run Emacs. For example, here in macOS's Terminal app, I had to tick "Use Option as Meta key" to make it work. Filipp