From: Carson Chittom <carson.chittom@mspb.ms.gov>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: terminal keys
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4p1uubh997.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87botfwq92.fsf@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org>
"Sebastian P. Luque" <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
> While using Gnus at a console (Konsole, from KDE in my case), some key
> combinations don't work as in an X environment. For example, 'C-M-k'
> (gnus-summary-kill-thread), i.e. holding Control, Alt, and k together
> doesn't do anything. However, hitting ESC, and then Control k does call
> `gnus-summary-kill-thread'. This should probably be asked in some KDE
> forum, since this is probably configured somewhere in KDE's system
> settings, but perhaps someone here has already dealt with this.
Sounds like Konsole isn't properly interpreting Meta/Alt. At a guess,
maybe TERM isn't set properly. Does Meta/Alt work right in other console
applications? What does "echo $TERM" return? Does something in your
termcap file (/etc/termcap on my OpenBSD install) have something more
suited to your situation than what TERM is set to?
Alternatively, maybe you have crumbs stuck under your Meta/Alt key (true
story; happened to me).
Esc (and release) is as far as I'm aware the Emacs fallback for Meta, so
that, at least, is working as designed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-17 16:13 Sebastian P. Luque
2011-10-17 16:29 ` Carson Chittom [this message]
2011-10-17 17:01 ` Sebastian P. Luque
2011-10-17 17:40 ` Carson Chittom
2011-10-17 17:46 ` Carson Chittom
2011-10-17 17:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-17 17:43 ` Sebastian P. Luque
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