* Robert Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had a try what you had suggested but it > confused my .xsession settings. Actually I'm > very bad in "X" too and cannot quite follow > what you intended. > Why should mutt's behaviour change when > putting your line into .Xresources? > Mutt has it's own key functions (I hoped > not all had been documented). Maybe you > took "editor" for the editor being used when > composing the message body. Yet mutt documents > "editor" as what emacs user would name a mini- > buffer, the bottom line where you key the > email address, the subject etc in.
It's no good having alt-x if the x-terminal you're using doesn't interpret the alt key. By default, at least in my setup, rxvt and xterm do not interpret the alt key. For rxvt, the entry in .Xresources XTerm*modifier: alt tells rxvt how to interpret the alt key. .Xresources needs to be in your home directory. For what it's worth, here's mine. XTerm*scrollBar: false XTerm*smallfont_key: true XTerm*bigfont_key: true XTerm*saveLines: 2000 XTerm*modifier: alt XTerm*reverseVideo: true XTerm*font: 6x13 Paste that in to .Xresources and you should be ok. man rxvt (or whatever xterm you're using) for more details. Cheers, Euan. -- ( ) |Euan Buchanan | _o) ~oo~ |Watford | /\\ .. Gnu! |United Kingdom |_\/V / =\ \= |http://homepage.ntlworld.com/euan.b/ |Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
