From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 00:34:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDFE37B401 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 00:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msr33.hinet.net (msr33.hinet.net [168.95.4.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D862B43F3F for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 00:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net) Received: from sonic.utopia.com (61-227-219-156.HINET-IP.hinet.net [61.227.219.156]) by msr33.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA19825 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 15:35:00 +0800 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:34:02 +0800 From: Robert Storey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030519153402.22ac5d71.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Emacs weirdness at console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:34:36 -0000 I'm a Linux refugee, and I confess to being new at FreeBSD. I've used Emacs a lot over the past few years under Linux. What I've noticed in FreeBSD is that Emacs barely works at the console, yet it works fine under X. A crucial problem (in the console) is that the ALT key (or M- key in Emacs parlance) just doesn't work at all. That's pretty major - without that key, about half the Emacs commands are inaccessible. The CTRL key (C- ) does work as expected. Again, in X, all is well with Emacs. Any suggestions on this are most welcome. regards, Robert