From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rydis (Martin Rydstr|m) @CD.Chalmers.SE Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console Date: 08 Jan 2004 02:37:04 +0100 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rydis+replies@cd.chalmers.se NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073526677 2822 80.91.224.253 (8 Jan 2004 01:51:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 01:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 08 02:51:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AePKK-0005vE-00 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:51:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AeQAu-0003y3-BR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:45:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.bahnhof.se!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!dd.chalmers.se!cd.chalmers.se!rydis Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: boris.cd.chalmers.se X-Attribution: mr X-Url: http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~rydis/ Mail-Copies-To: rydis+copies@cd.chalmers.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119855 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15798 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15798 joao writes: > So the problem has been narrowed down to a difference between this > virtual console and an xterm : typing Alt + "<" yields ESC < in both > cases, but typing Alt + Shift + ">" yields ESC > inside the xterm, but > nothing at all (not a single character) in the virtual console. > > So emacs works fine in the xterm but becomes unusable in the console. > > Any idea where I can fix this ? Yeah. This is a problem with the keymap under VC:s not being "complete" enough. Stuff to use to fix: loadkeys, dumpkeys. To diagnose what the kernel sees, and can pass on, try showkey. All three modes of showkey will probably be useful to find out what is going on. Regards, 'mr -- [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_