Re: Meta-Down doesn't work

Re: Meta-Down doesn't work

[Ronald Fischer]

Adam Fabian <afabian@io.com> writes:

> When I press alt-down, emacs (from what C-h alt-down tells me) reads
> only the down key; no meta.  

When you do from the Linux commandline a

  xmodmap -pm

what do you get? Maybe "Alt" is not properly defined as a meta key.

> When I use ESC <down>, emacs says ESC ESC
> [ b is undefined.  And meta-up seems to get my some message from the
> kernel about inittab. 

This is weird. Could you give more information about this kernel
message thing?

Also, when you do a M-x view-lossage, what keys do you find recorded
there after you have used alt-down and alt-up?

Ronald
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