Re: Emacs on console: keys not responding

[Pete Harlan <harlan@mymenus.com>]

> When running on the console, Emacs does not respond to several keys.
> For example, the following keys have no effect when the ALT key is
> used as the meta modifier:
> 
> M-%
> M-!
> M-<
> M->

You can put this in your startup scripts somewhere:

loadkeys <<EOF
alt shift keycode 51 = Meta_less
alt shift keycode 52 = Meta_greater
EOF

This should fix the M-< and M-> keys.  I never bothered to fix the
other missing Meta functions, because I don't use them very often (nor
do I use the console very often).

Distributions ought to be repaired so all meaningful Meta key
sequences work at the console, I think.  (For that matter, Shift-Tab
shouldn't be the same as Tab, but maybe that's been done.)

--
Pete Harlan
pete@mymenus.com