Re: weird key bindings...

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
<jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

>> When I'm in org-mode, most of the bindings involving Meta (esc on my Mac) do 
>> not produce the expected results. For ex. M-left should do org-do-promote 
>> but what it does is forward-word, although I *am* in org-mode.

> Ok, it looks like I get expected keybindings (as far as org-mode is concerned 
> at least) when I launch emacs with -nw. When I launch it with a graphical 
> frame, I get a lot of bindings overridden.
>
> It is not my .emacs.el that does that, and as far as I can tell it is nothing 
> in my .emacs.d ... So what would be the cause of that behavior ?

Press C-h k M-<left> when you are in Emacs in terminal. What does it say?

Press C-h k M-<left> when you are in Emacs GUI. What does it say?

After seeing the answers to the above, perhaps someone will tell you
what variables to check.