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Re: Alt-X is bound to M-8- instead of M-x ?


From: Sven Joachim
Subject: Re: Alt-X is bound to M-8- instead of M-x ?
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:26:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

B Thomas <no@email.com> writes:

> I tried that and find that M-x is bound to
> capital A with a tilde over it. In the xterm
> itself M-x is bound to phi `ΓΈ' .

This can be fixed by letting xterm send Meta as Escape, i.e. by
putting a line with

xterm*metaSendsEscape: true

into ~/.Xresources.  It can also be set at runtime in the xterm menu
that pops up when you press C-mouse-1.

Cheers,
       Sven


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