Re: emacs 23.1 meta not working in -nw mode

[Neil Baylis]

On Aug 12, 11:06 pm, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-08-12 16:55 (-0700), Neil Baylis wrote:
>
> > On Aug 12, 4:40 pm, Neil Baylis <neil.bay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm using emacs 23.1.1 on an Ubuntu system. It works fine using the
> >> GUI. When I run it as emacs -nw, I find the meta key doesn't work
> >> properly. Instead, it self-inserts something.
> > More info: it's specific to xterm. If I run it in the gnome-terminal,
> > it works OK. In both cases, $TERM is set to xterm-color.
>
> Yes, this is about XTerm and not about Emacs at all. Start XTerm with
> option
>
>     -xrm "XTerm.*.metaSendsEscape: true"
>
> or put that X resource in your ~/.Xresources file, like this:
>
>     XTerm.*.metaSendsEscape: true

Excellent, that did the trick. Thank you.

Neil