emacs/terminal problem

fluca1978

fluca1978

Hi,
I installed emacs-nox11, and I cannot active the replace all feature. I have to hit META-% to activate such feature, having META = ALT on my pc keyboard and % done with SHIFT+5 (italian keyboard layout). The problem is that I can activate all simple META-<function> and I can digit % with SHIFT+5 but when combined all together I got nothing. It is like no key is pressed. I suspect this is a problem of the console setup, I've tried con25 and xterm. Any suggestion is welcome!
 
Do you use sysutils/tmux or sysutils/screen? Does it work when you are in either of those?

What is $LANG set to? Try unsetting $LANG and putting something like the following in ~/.login_conf:

Code: 
me:\
        :charset=utf-8:\
        :lang=it_IT.UTF-8:

and running

% cap_mkdb .login_conf

See login.conf() for details.

What does your ~/.emacs look like?
 
I just tried that combination in pure console environment. You have to press `ESC' (which is META) first, release `ESC', and then press shift+5. Everything goes fine. I don't know if you had done it the same way.
 
If having to press/release <Esc> is too tedious (<alt> is in a nicer location and you don't have to release it), I've read that switching your keyboard mapping to us.emacs makes <alt> work as <meta>, although it didn't work for me. What did work for me on the console was unsetting $LANG and $LC_* and running sysutils/tmux, which sets $TERM=screen. Then <alt> == <meta> as in X.
 
jrm said:
Do you use sysutils/tmux or sysutils/screen? Does it work when you are in either of those?
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No, I don't know what they are but I'm trying to find out.
I can confirm that emacs is using ESC as META key.

jrm said:
What is $LANG set to? Try unsetting $LANG and putting something like the following in ~/.login_conf:

Code: 
me:\
        :charset=utf-8:\
        :lang=it_IT.UTF-8:

and running

% cap_mkdb .login_conf

See login.conf() for details.
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My LANG was set to en_US-UTF-8. I've tried to add the lines above to the .login_conf and run % cap_mkdb but nothing has changed.


jrm said:
What does your ~/.emacs look like?
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I don't have actually one, so I don't guess that's the problem.

I've tried also to set the italian keyboard via sysinstall, but again Emacs is using ESC as meta key.
 
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