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 09:26:44 +0100
> 
> Same symptoms : under the console, C-h l shows nothing at all when I 
> press Alt + Shift combinations. It's as if I had pressed no key at all.
> 
> Under X, I get M-> or M-3, and in the xterm I get ESC > or ESC 3.
> 
> Alt alone works fine though. Alt + "<" in the console does M-< and goes 
> to the beginning of the buffer.
> 
> So could the problem be outside emacs ?

It most probably is.

> obviously emacs is not getting any key when I press Alt + Shift.

Indeed.

I hope someone here who is more knowledgeable in GNU/Linux console
than myself will tell you how to fix that.