> "BB" == Bob Bernstein writes:
BB> ... if I launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding
BB> (Meta == Alt) evaporates.
That is an issue with your terminal emulator.
What do you see if you, in an emacs -nw session, press: C-q M-x
Xterm's default settings can be a problem for
* On 2016 02 Feb 18:52 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> I didn't like the footnote on that page: "I am using the complete
> version without problems outside X. But I couldn’t make it work on
> xterm with ‘emacs -nw’. But (again), if you are using X, why use
> ‘-nw’? :)" Waiting for a remote system's w
On Tue 02 Feb 2016 at 13:38:26 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2016 01 Feb 21:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> > What I've not sat down and figured out is how to use Ctl-Left/Right to
> > navigate word left/right but use Alt-B/F instead. Even Bash will allow
> > the Ctl variants.
>
> I th
* On 2016 01 Feb 21:30 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> What I've not sat down and figured out is how to use Ctl-Left/Right to
> navigate word left/right but use Alt-B/F instead. Even Bash will allow
> the Ctl variants.
I think I resolved my Ctrl-arrow keys following this page:
http://www.emacswik
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:
For xterm, you set this config the way Don Armstrong showed:
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
in your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources.
Bingo. That did it. I could not for money or love recall either
of those two filenames you so graciously cited. Thanks
>> :-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
> Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you
> changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if
> I launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt)
> evaporates. Per
* On 2016 01 Feb 21:37 -0600, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> >...I am using Emacs -nw to type this message calling it from Mutt and
> >running in Xfce Terminal and Alt-X. etc, works just fine.
>
> Interesting. Hrrrmmm...so perhaps I can set up Alt as Meta in t
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Nate Bargmann wrote:
...I am using Emacs -nw to type this message calling it from
Mutt and running in Xfce Terminal and Alt-X. etc, works just
fine.
Interesting. Hrrrmmm...so perhaps I can set up Alt as Meta in
the configuration of the terminal I use in X?
--
Bob Bernst
* On 2016 01 Feb 20:07 -0600, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> >:-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
>
> Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you
> changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But i
On 02/01/2016 10:36 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Nate Bargmann wrote:
...I am using Emacs -nw to type this message calling it from Mutt and running
in Xfce Terminal and Alt-X. etc, works just fine.
Interesting. Hrrrmmm...so perhaps I can set up Alt as Meta in the configurat
On Mon, 01 Feb 2016, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> >:-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
>
> Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you
> changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if I
> la
That, or use the escape key and it may be possible to restore that key
binding for when emacs -nw is run so hitting alt works again.
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:28:50
From: Nate Bargmann
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Meta key for '
On Mon 01 Feb 2016 at 21:28:50 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2016 01 Feb 20:07 -0600, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > [...] Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if I
> > launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt)
> > evaporates. Perhaps I need to set som
On 02/01/2016 09:06 PM, Bob Bernstein
wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
:-) "There are no dumb questions. Only
dumb answers."
Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it
in gnu.emacs.hel
Bob Bernstein writes:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> :-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
>
> Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you
> changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if
> I launch 'emacs -nw' to a
Davide Marchignoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the frozen distribution and I find quite annoying the fact
> that xterm (and rxvt also) ignores the meta key. For instance, when
> running bash under console, -d deletes the word in front of the
> cursor, whereas under xterm -d s
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 13:19:01 -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> Is there another way to map the Meta key rather than xmodmap?
I suspect there's a way to do it with the XKB configuration; unfortunately,
it's very badly documented.
What's wrong with xmodmap? It's a bit low-level, but if that's w
This problem has come up so many times since hamm started getting used that it
almost
merits its own HOWTO. What's happened is that you've upgraded X and now you are
using
the XKEYBOARD extension. As you've noticed, the ALT key now does ALT and the
"windows"
key is now the META key. I've argued
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Michael Symalla wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> can anyone help me to let my Alt-key be the metakey in emacs? Now I am
> using the ESC key, which works fine but is not as comfortable as the ALT
> key.
Install xkeycaps and edit the keyboard layout to your liking. If you have
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Christian Hudon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work.
> Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that
>
> (1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and
> Mod4, which is nonsensical.
>
Well, I thi
> Pete Templin writes:
Pete> I'd also like to know how to get backspace to be a backspace
Pete> and delete to be a delete consistently in all of the things I
Pete> do (xterms on localhost, xterms telnetted to another host,
Pete> emacs locally, emacs in a xterm telnetted to another host
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