From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs does not recognize the alt modifier key Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:46:22 -0600 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: Reply-To: tim@johnsons-web.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265938860 10594 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2010 01:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:41:00 +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 Feb 12 02:40:58 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfkWa-0002rC-96 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfkWZ-0008B7-QA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:40:51 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:46:22 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: sv3-bY7dAFkD5r5uCtNRD2ea8cOVqCRZd5Sq3joRSAY7d6MZ2WlMCmW4CSO0qqhtjuJTefKd5x0oObpcu0j!WZW2DWMDcaydlbwWYNKZaTbyCrBDv4ebwxFZdc5ostRSRgaurHPBFZ7ygXG4uL4IfmYRK/4= Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176744 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:71815 Archived-At: Using emacs 22.3.1 on Slackware 13.0 32-bit, stock install. FYI: Used emacs extensively at one time, after several years, have resumed usage. Emacs does not recognize the alt key on this Operating system. Emacs does recognize the following modifiers: control, hyper and super. The last two are set via xmodmap. xev will recognize the 'alt' key as do other applications - such as vim. + char sequences appear to be interpreted the same as an alt-char combination. (As I would expect) Example: c-h,k -p => M-p (translated from p) runs the command scroll-other-window-down. But c-h,k -p => H-p runs the command backward-sexp ;; Note 'H-p' instead of 'M-p'. I have not changed any of my emacs settings (that I know of) since I used emacs on previous OSs (slack 10.0 and kubuntu). Please advise. thanks -- Tim tim@johnsons-web.com http://www.akwebsoft.com