From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80344 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carson Chittom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: terminal keys Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4p1uubh997.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> References: <87botfwq92.fsf@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318869121 8409 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2011 16:32:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:32:01 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28632@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 17 18:31:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RFq6X-0005v8-Br for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:31:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RFq6F-0000pu-PL; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:31:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RFq4S-0000ot-DV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:48 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RFq4I-000159-BE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:48 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RFq4G-00063d-Vi for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RFq4G-0004f0-MI for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from net27h163.itsd.state.ms.us ([69.60.34.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from carson.chittom by net27h163.itsd.state.ms.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:29:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: net27h163.itsd.state.ms.us User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d4YDfBA97e5L2tWuspS4J1pdois= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80344 Archived-At: "Sebastian P. Luque" 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.