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Re: Alt-x not working


From: Steve Graham
Subject: Re: Alt-x not working
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:13:09 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 10:27:47 AM UTC-7, Javier wrote:
> > <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> > C-g C-h l
> 
> It seems something in the operating system is remapping Alt-x to
> <help-echo>, and it repeats it several times.  Did you install some
> program recently?  are you using autohotkey or similar to remap keys
> in windows? changed the language/keyboard settings for windows?
> 
> You can still get the Alt-x behavior (Meta-x in emacspeak) by pressing
> ESC (release key) x
> 
> A kludge that might work is inserting this in .emacs
> 
> (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro "<help-echo>") 'execute-extended-comment)
> 
> or this, since it appears repeated 5 times for each Alt-x press: 
> 
> (global-set-key (read-kbd-macro
>     "<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>")
>     'execute-extended-comment)

The Escape x worked great!

Thanks, Javier


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