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: Re: Emacs does not recognize the alt modifier key Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:46:16 -0600 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: References: <87aavf9gjk.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> 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 1265996619 14822 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2010 17:43:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:43:39 +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 18:43:37 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 1NfzYH-0000uT-DB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:43:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfzYG-0007Q5-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:43:36 -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: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:46:16 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: sv3-MfpW3QRXNpO+dhu/2LfjqPLO/gfCZTrLCZ5cYFRLGfyo9DGeINA8qUWJyMdYtPv3aMbYz8Ystcuyd7s!oHEtAr6HKhAvmAwJBr6MLYFqZjkVO4nBBcWR99oOMqJHE5BH4Xd9pBlEp5aKgTnQi7PVac0= 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:176762 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:71833 Archived-At: On 2010-02-12, Tim X wrote: > > I believe this is covered in the etc/PROBLEMS file. To some extent, the > solution depends on whether your running under the console, within an > xterm (or similar - some have their own quirks) or running native X > windows. The FAQ may also have some pointers. Thanks for pointing me to that file. Even tho' I found my own solution, now I know more about the why and better how to troubleshoot should I have more problems. cheers -- Tim tim@johnsons-web.com http://www.akwebsoft.com