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Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw
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Harry Putnam |
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Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw |
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Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:27:34 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
> It looks to me like you've got Alt conflated with Meta. The two
> modifiers are NOT the same. Check .xmodmap / .xmodmaprc to see how X
> is set up. Also, you don't say what desktop manager you're using,
> Gnome, LXDE, whatever. Note that DEs also do keymapping, but
> separately from the .xmodmaprc file (and each other).
LXDE,
Before seeing you post I responded to Bob P with some more info from
my setup, including ouput of xmodmap
> Just out of curiosity, if you type ESC-x instead of ALT-x, what do you
> get? If things are set up correctly, you should get "M-x " in the
> minibuffer, waiting for an extended command.
Well, like always that does the same as what I expect the Alt key to
do, but is so awkward to use, I always do something about it when on a
Solaris variant. A place where after a fesh install, I've always had
to use ESC to work with emacs.
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Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw, Harry Putnam, 2013/09/20