[solved] Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs
Mike Kupfer m.kup...@acm.org writes: Rodolfo Medina wrote: After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta' key not being recognized. How to fix that? If you're running Emacs in tty mode, then I think the Meta key support is done by the terminal emulator. What terminal emulator are you using? Yes, I'm using XTerm, and the Meta or Alt role is played by ESC. But Meta/Alt is enabled appending the following line: xterm*metaSendsEscape: true to the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. As for Emacs not having X support, which Emacs packages do you have installed? Are there any warning messages when you start Emacs from the command line? With the last full-upgrade, emacs24 was replaced by emacs-nox. Now, if I do: # aptitude install emacs24 , it complains that it conflicts with emacs-nox and suggests to remove it, that I expect will solve the problem. But, after all, using Emacs without GUI support is all right for me. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87h9o86cf2@gmail.com
Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs
On Saturday 08 August 2015 07:13:09 Rodolfo Medina wrote: My sources.list: # Unstable deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free You don't need deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main twice, but that still doesn't solve the meta key problem. Lisi . After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta' key not being recognized. How to fix that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201508081144.36509.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 08 August 2015 07:13:09 Rodolfo Medina wrote: My sources.list: # Unstable deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free You don't need deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main twice, but that still doesn't solve the meta key problem. Lisi . After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta' key not being recognized. How to fix that? The second time is: deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87io8qx7qd@gmail.com
Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs
On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: ...but that still doesn't solve the meta key problem. Ordinarily would we not, in the good old days, edit our handy /etc/X11.xorg.conf file? I have xorg running here on a very recent Jessie install, and am typing in it rather nicely thank you at this very moment, but there is no xorg.conf file per se anywhere to be found on this machine. There is a thing, a collection of other .conf files in fact, installed under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, but none of them appear to treat of keyboards and their vicissitudes. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.DEB.2.20.1508081029030.6689@qrovna.ybpnyqbznva
Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs
On Saturday 08 August 2015 13:52:42 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 08 August 2015 07:13:09 Rodolfo Medina wrote: My sources.list: # Unstable deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free You don't need deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main twice, but that still doesn't solve the meta key problem. Lisi . After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta' key not being recognized. How to fix that? The second time is: deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main Rodolfo Yes - but the third line again has deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main So you have those words twice and you only need them once. The third line is the more useful, since it also has contrib and non-free, so I personally would delete the first line and then rearrange the other two - or more likely, add contrib non-free to the first line and delete the third. But it is doing no harm. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201508081602.10079.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs
Rodolfo Medina wrote: After last full-upgrade, Emacs starts without X support and with the `Meta' key not being recognized. How to fix that? If you're running Emacs in tty mode, then I think the Meta key support is done by the terminal emulator. What terminal emulator are you using? As for Emacs not having X support, which Emacs packages do you have installed? Are there any warning messages when you start Emacs from the command line? mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/3529.1439068443@allegro.localdomain
Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs
Quoting Bob Bernstein (poo...@ruptured-duck.com): On Sat, 8 Aug 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: ...but that still doesn't solve the meta key problem. Ordinarily would we not, in the good old days, edit our handy /etc/X11.xorg.conf file? s,.,/, I have xorg running here on a very recent Jessie install, and am typing in it rather nicely thank you at this very moment, but there is no xorg.conf file per se anywhere to be found on this machine. Nowadays, X configures itself unless you're deviating from the usual or need driver workarounds etc. # Xorg -configure will write one for you if you need to check it over or make changes and additions. There is a thing, a collection of other .conf files in fact, installed under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, but none of them appear to treat of keyboards and their vicissitudes. They're all next door in /usr/share/X11/kbd/ but aren't for changing. However, we have no evidence whether X is at fault, do we? Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150809012448.GD11382@alum
