From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs not receiving C-M-right from keyboard Date: 23 Aug 2007 21:52:31 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187908846 24101 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2007 22:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 00:40:45 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 1IOLM2-0006v2-Mv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOLM1-0005LC-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jn4OJRY10dkJZYl6YrZWsgBzb2XyFfRdz9CPnNC2J50oIf3YIr Cancel-Lock: sha1:cv3k6d2vRMJKRhKk6YcZ1H9qudU= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151221 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:46794 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > I have a new Dell Latitude D620 laptop. I have everything, including Emacs, > installed identically to the way I had it on my old machine. However, the > key sequences `C-M-right', `C-M-left', `C-M-up', and `C-M-down' are > apparently not being sent to Emacs from the keyboard of the new machine. [...] > I've looked through the Emacs doc. I've tried to google for something about > this, but I haven't found anything. Anyone know what's going on and how to > fix it? Thanks. sounds to me like you shouldn't be looking at emacs for the problem. is perhaps you window manager hogging the key combo? check for keyboard shortcuts in your wm's configuration, and see if C-M- is used for something. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)