Emacs weirdness at console

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:34:02PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> 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.

Try typing, for instance:

    Esc x psychoanalyze-pinhead

If you want to enable the Meta key in your console, you need to create
and load a customised .kbd map --- see kbdmap(8) and the standard maps
in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps.  You might find the map in

    http://listserver.uk.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-users/2000-October/002567.html

interesting for comparison.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
                                                      Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey         Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614                                  Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20030519/72644c4c/attachment-0001.bin