Re: Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: joao <joao@nospam.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:11:58 +0100
> 
> I compared the output of describe-key (C-h k) when I press this 
> combination :
> 
> emacs under X says "M-> runs the command end-of-buffer"
> 
> emacs -nw inside an xterm says "ESC > runs the command end-of-buffer"
> 
> emacs in the linux console : describe-key does not even react to my key 
> presses, I still have that prompt "Describe key:" in the minibuffer as 
> if I had typed nothing at all...

What does "C-h l" (that's a letter ell, not a digit one) say?

It's quite possible that your console keyboard is configured so that
Alt+Shift+digit doesn't produce M-digit.  "C-h l" will show what Emacs
gets (or does not get) when you press a key combination.