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From: | Aurélien DESBRIÈRES |
Subject: | Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw |
Date: | Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:36:05 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes: > Running recent emacs-24 > on Debian Linux > > I don't often use emacs -nw any more and just noticed today that I > have some kind of charset or LANG setting problem that is causing > unusual characters to be printed to my files when using the ALT key > for combos like M-x. > > (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? > > ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- > > The above problem was uncovered today because I wanted to use > emacs -nw. But also I wanted to make emacs start in message mode by > passing what ever is necessary to do that from the command line. > > emacs -nw -f message-mode file does not set message-mode although if > I insert text-mode rather than message-mode it will start in text-mode. > > How can I cause emacs -nw to start in message-mode from the command > line. > > One further question is how to pass elisp on the command line to be > processed by emacs as it starts. > > emacs -nw <Syntax for passing elisp> file > > > had xterm*metaSendsEscape: true to your ~/.Xresources should correct your trouble. -- ______ __ __ __ __ Aurélien DESBRIÈRES __ ____ __ __ __ aurelien@replicant.io __ __ __ ____ __ __ twitter: Think_GNU __ __ __ __ __ __ Run free! Run GNU.ORG _____ __ __ _______
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