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Re: How to Map Alt key globally


From: Tim Johnson
Subject: Re: How to Map Alt key globally
Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 10:50:29 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)

* Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> [180505 10:47]:
> The following error message
> global-set-key: Key sequence M-a starts with non-prefix key ESC
> 
> Is generated when I attempted to execute
> (global-set-key (kbd "M-a") 'move-beginning-of-line)
> 
> Alt-a is undefined prior to execution
> 
> What is proper way to map this keystroke?
  I forgot to mention:
  With 
  emacs -q
  the mapping works. 
  :) What have I done? And how do I trace It?

-- 
Tim Johnson
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com



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