* On 2016 01 Feb 20:07 -0600, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >:-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers." > > Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you > changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if I > launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt) > evaporates. Perhaps I need to set something specific in my .emacs for the > minibuffer? > > I've got amd64 Jessie running without systemd and icewm for X.
I don't have an answer, however, I am using Emacs -nw to type this message calling it from Mutt and running in Xfce Terminal and Alt-X. etc, works just fine. What I've not sat down and figured out is how to use Ctl-Left/Right to navigate word left/right but use Alt-B/F instead. Even Bash will allow the Ctl variants. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us