From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73281 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: $ collision Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:05:35 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87iq0zuh40.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <87pqv779gi.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> <87ocarvxt8.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287450399 9940 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2010 01:06:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:06:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21653@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 19 03:06:38 2010 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 1P80ez-0003cB-QQ for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:06:38 +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 1P80ed-0002YU-UD; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:06:15 -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 1P80ec-0002YE-23 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P80eY-0006zs-Iy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:06:11 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp3.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.83] helo=smtp.stanford.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P80eX-0000wO-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:06:09 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 80D8E1A1347 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2BB0E1A134C for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00BE52F4E5; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:05:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Riley's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:49:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73281 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > Maybe I'm missing something but M- 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)