From: John T. H. Wong
Subject: emacs ALT-key (M-) usage with telnet from windows
Date:
Message-ID: <38D9F19E.E0383153@hkucs.org>
Dear all lisp programmers & emacs users,
I use unix emacs over telnet, but i got really frustrated (actually
cannot use) about the usage of emacs commands with M-key (ALT-key). As
I'm telneting from window system, press ALT (M-key) will invoke the menu
bar instead of passing the keystroke to the UNIX system.
What should I do to solve this problem (personally i dun like
ntemacs)?
Regards
John
From: Rudolf Schlatte
Subject: Re: emacs ALT-key (M-) usage with telnet from windows
Date:
Message-ID: <lxhfdy9co7.fsf@ist.tu-graz.ac.at>
"John T. H. Wong" <·······@hkucs.org> writes:
> I use unix emacs over telnet, but i got really frustrated (actually
> cannot use) about the usage of emacs commands with M-key
> (ALT-key). As I'm telneting from window system, press ALT (M-key)
> will invoke the menu bar instead of passing the keystroke to the
> UNIX system. What should I do to solve this problem (personally i
> dun like ntemacs)?
Pressing Esc, then x instead of Alt-x will do the trick.
(Emacs-specific questions are better posted to comp.emacs, btw)
Hope that helps,
Rudi
From: Tim Bradshaw
Subject: Re: emacs ALT-key (M-) usage with telnet from windows
Date:
Message-ID: <ey3og86ez56.fsf@cley.com>
* John T H Wong wrote:
> Dear all lisp programmers & emacs users,
> I use unix emacs over telnet, but i got really frustrated (actually
> cannot use) about the usage of emacs commands with M-key (ALT-key). As
> I'm telneting from window system, press ALT (M-key) will invoke the menu
> bar instead of passing the keystroke to the UNIX system.
This should probably be on an emacs newsgroup (or perhaps a windows
one?), but we use teraterm which is a lot better than the standard
Windows telnet client, and also has options to stop windows catching
the alt key (I wish Emacs on Windows did this, so meta-tab would
work!).
It doesn't live at http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html, but it can
be found from links there and that's the only pointer I have. It's
free.
--tim
From: Lars Bj�nnes
Subject: Re: emacs ALT-key (M-) usage with telnet from windows
Date:
Message-ID: <87ityej5lx.fsf@gdpm.no>
"John T. H. Wong" <·······@hkucs.org> writes:
> I use unix emacs over telnet, but i got really frustrated (actually
> cannot use) about the usage of emacs commands with M-key
> (ALT-key). As I'm telneting from window system, press ALT (M-key)
> will invoke the menu bar instead of passing the keystroke to the
> UNIX system.
Depending on how your system is configured:
* Try a different telnet-client
There should loads of clients available. I'm not sure, but I seem to
remember that NetTerm is quite Emacs-friendly. Download a trial
here: <URL: http://www.netterm.com/html/downloads.html >
* Get a X-server for Windows (I've been using one from
<URL:http://www.labf.com/ > for some years now)
--
Lars
From: Didier Boucard
Subject: Re: emacs ALT-key (M-) usage with telnet from windows
Date:
Message-ID: <38D9F2BE.8B8CE01B@emn.fr>
"John T. H. Wong" wrote:
>
> Dear all lisp programmers & emacs users,
>
> I use unix emacs over telnet, but i got really frustrated (actually
> cannot use) about the usage of emacs commands with M-key (ALT-key). As
> I'm telneting from window system, press ALT (M-key) will invoke the menu
>
> bar instead of passing the keystroke to the UNIX system.
> What should I do to solve this problem (personally i dun like
> ntemacs)?
>
In fact, you can use ESC.
So ESC-x is interpreted as Meta-x.
Didier.
From: Oleg Goldshmidt
Subject: Re: emacs ALT-key (M-) usage with telnet from windows
Date:
Message-ID: <lvhfdxoca8.fsf@NOSPAM.bfr.co.il>
"John T. H. Wong" wrote:
> I use unix emacs over telnet, but i got really frustrated (actually
> cannot use) about the usage of emacs commands with M-key (ALT-key). As
> I'm telneting from window system, press ALT (M-key) will invoke the menu
> bar instead of passing the keystroke to the UNIX system.
It has nothing to do with lisp or emacs, actually, but since you
asked... Actually, I don't know what you should do on a Windows
system, but were you using UNIX the following fragment of the
xterm man pages would help you:
eightBitInput (class EightBitInput)
If true, Meta characters input from the keyboard
are presented as a single character with the
eighth bit turned on. If false, Meta characters
are converted into a two-character sequence with
the character itself preceded by ESC. The default
is ``true.''
Now figure out what you have to do to your Windows to make your
keyboard inputs 8-bit. if nothing helps, you are stuck with the
ESC key, as others have suggested.
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | ····@bfr.co.il
"... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time." - W. Shakespeare.