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Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw
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Harry Putnam |
Subject: |
Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:51:55 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
aurelien@replicant.io (Aurélien DESBRIÈRES) writes:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
[...]
>> (I hope these characters are reproduced in this post)
>>
>> `M-x' produces 'ø'
>> `M-Shift + !' produces '¡'
>> `M-shift + : produces 'º'
>>
>> What kind of setting is likely to be causing this?
[...]
Aurélien Wrote
> xterm*metaSendsEscape: true
>
> to your ~/.Xresources
>
> should correct your trouble.
doesn't seem to do a thing here:
grep 'xterm\*meta' ~/.Xresources
xterm*metaSendsEscape: true
Followed by closing down X and restarting with startx.
but still if I run `emacs -nw' in an xterm:
And try to press Alt-x, I get this:
`ø'
I haven't worked on the other cures yet, but pretty sure changing
xmodmap will do the job... just wanted to mention that your suggestion
seems not to work here.
Env is: Debian Linux running on PC (an older P4) using
the real xterm... not any of the pretenders.
xterm -version
XTerm(295)
Message not available