From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: $ collision
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:05:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iq0zuh40.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cok4lfypjy.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (Richard Riley's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:49:37 +0200")
Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
> Maybe I'm missing something but M-<key> works fine. In this case M-d.
I promise, it doesn't me. Apparently it works for you with the particular
set of terminal emulators that you use, but it doesn't work for me running
ssh inside a bog-standard xterm and never has in the fifteen plus years
that I've been using Emacs.
> M not working would render emacs useless in a terminal I would have
> thought.
That's why it's always been possible in Emacs to simulate meta by pressing
ESC and then the character.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-17 14:09 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 21:32 ` Reiner Steib
2010-10-18 18:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 14:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-19 18:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-18 7:33 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-18 16:27 ` Russ Allbery
2010-10-18 17:28 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-18 17:33 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-10-19 0:19 ` Russ Allbery
2010-10-19 0:49 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-19 1:05 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2010-10-19 1:27 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-19 1:32 ` Russ Allbery
2010-10-19 10:28 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-19 16:12 ` James Cloos
2010-10-19 18:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 18:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-19 10:34 ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-19 10:37 ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-19 10:53 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-20 2:54 ` Russ Allbery
2010-10-20 5:17 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-20 8:28 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-10-19 17:04 ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-10-18 17:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-18 18:14 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-18 18:55 ` David Engster
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