Re: emacs - some navigation keys aren't working

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> writes:

> Hi,
>
> A few of my navigation keys in emacs don't appear to be working, for
> example meta (alt key), shift and , to go to the top of the file does
> nothing. Same with bottom of file. It seems to work fine when it is ran
> from x though. Used to work fine, before my holiday, not sure what has
> changed. I've done a few updates and perhaps something else to cause
> this issue, but I'm not sure. so does anyone know what I've done? Has
> the keymap or layout settings been changed? I'm not sure why it works in
> X and not on the console? Any ideas? 

X delivers key events, the console character sequences.  If your console
has no character representation for a certain key combination, there is
no magic Emacs can engage in for finding out the key presses.

-- 
David Kastrup