Nope, Shift-Alt-B doesn't seem to help at all. It does work in an emacs-nox session, but Alt-B works there as well.
PS: Just because I was vague in the original email, Alt-B was just an example. All of the escape key bindings are broken. Glenn Mabbutt wrote: > Does SHIFT+Alt+B work?? VNC will sometimes (always??) not send ctrl, alt > sequences, unless used in combination with SHIFT. > > Glenn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Garrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Alt Key Issue > > > I don't understand why I'm having this problem, but maybe someone else > does... > > I'm running a RedHat 7.2 machine with the RPM vnc-server-3.3.3r2-18.4 > from > Redhat installed. I'm using the standard windows client version 3.3.3 R3 on > Windows XP. > > When I run emacs on the linux machine, the Alt key doesn't work for > escape > sequences. Alt-b is ignored. Explicitly hitting escape b jumps back a word > (just as expected). > > My bash shells work just fine, and understand the alt key for their emacs > > like editing, and emacs-nox works just fine. Running emacs on the work > station > and displaying it on an X server on my laptop also works just fine. > > I can't for the life of me figure out why this is happening. Obviously, > the > interminals are smart enough to handle something that emacs isn't, but > exactly > what? And how can I fix it for emacs? > > Thanks in advance for any help! > -- Don Garrett http://www.bgb.cc/garrett/ BGB Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
