Mercurial > emacs
changeset 107518:ca9132805f76
Document Bug#5541.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:15:27 -0400 |
| parents | 408aeb71a781 |
| children | 653d35986c98 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Mar 19 14:22:15 2010 +0100 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Mar 19 11:15:27 2010 -0400 @@ -1418,6 +1418,21 @@ * Runtime problems on character terminals +** The meta key does not work on xterm. +Typing M-x rings the terminal bell, and inserts a string like ";120~". +For recent xterm versions (>= 216), Emacs uses xterm's modifyOtherKeys +feature to generate strings for key combinations that are not +otherwise usable. One circumstance in which this can cause problems +is if you have specified the X resource + + xterm*VT100.Translations + +to contain translations that use the meta key. Then xterm will not +use meta in modified function-keys, which confuses Emacs. To fix +this, you can remove the X resource or put this in your init file: + + (xterm-remove-modify-other-keys) + ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen. This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being