From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73288 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: $ collision Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:34:30 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287484514 6420 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2010 10:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:35:14 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21660@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 19 12:35:13 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 1P89XE-0003qZ-KC for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:35:13 +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 1P89XA-0004wM-Dj; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:35:08 -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 1P89X9-0004w7-2s for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P89X4-0000OW-AQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P89X3-0007wn-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:35:01 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P89X0-0003n4-2s for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:35:00 +0200 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:34:58 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:34:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xiLFV1zwEiOzsi9JGxXjekeZZoI= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73288 Archived-At: >>>>> Russ Allbery : > I don't believe it's keyboard-dependent, but I could be wrong. I've never > had meta survive ssh -> xterm -> emacs, which forces two keystrokes (ESC > d) instead of one shifted keystroke. That works for me. I work with "emacs -nw" on some slow SSH connections, and I do the ssh from an xterm. And I can use M-commands on that emacs, without having to resort to ESC. Works from KDE konsole and from gnome-terminal, as well as from xterm (I just verified).