From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt-x not working Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437672659 3016 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2015 17:30:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:30:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 23 19:30:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIKKb-0002nt-9I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:30:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIKKa-0005vd-Ns for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:30:52 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 6vJ9bD1ekW8t4acxAcHFJw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213651 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105937 Archived-At: > > C-g C-h l It seems something in the operating system is remapping Alt-x to , and it repeats it several times. Did you install some program recently? are you using autohotkey or similar to remap keys in windows? changed the language/keyboard settings for windows? You can still get the Alt-x behavior (Meta-x in emacspeak) by pressing ESC (release key) x A kludge that might work is inserting this in .emacs (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro "") 'execute-extended-comment) or this, since it appears repeated 5 times for each Alt-x press: (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro " ") 'execute-extended-comment)