From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: slrn and emacsclient Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:36:47 GMT Organization: Business Internet Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170729641 29867 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2007 02:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 02:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 06 03:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HEGG3-00008U-4b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEGG1-0001eS-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!nn.andrew.cmu.edu!pitt.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!News.Dal.Ca!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.138.55 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-X-Trace: ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca 1170729407 142.177.138.55 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:36:47 AST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:36:47 AST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145309 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40915 Archived-At: On 2007-02-05, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 05.02.2007 um 16:02 schrieb Tyler Smith: > >>> When GNU Emacs runs in some terminal emulation it is no >>> X client anymore. It receives key events which the terminal emulation >>> has received first, filtered, and then passed to programmes running >>> in it: a shell, vi, hangman, GNU Emacs ... >> >> Is this true for all terminal emulators, or is there one that is >> better for use with emacs, ie. one that passes the meta key events on >> to emacs without altering them? > > *I* don't know of any exception. > Well, to answer my own question, I found one with some help from the Debian people. Xterm will accpet Alt/Meta modifiers, with the following line in your .Xresources file: xterm*metaSendsEscape: true This works for me with Debian testing, YMMV. There's also a package called XtermExtras, with an .el file, .inputrc and .Xresources modifications available at the EmacsWiki. -- Regards, Tyler Smith