Re: Running Emacs without any display server

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 19/05/2021 00:19 +0530, Abhiseck Paira wrote:

> Hi,
> I was trying to run Emacs without any display server (like Xorg or
> wayland) (So I was running Emacs in a tty). Emacs started as expected
> but the Alt (Meta) key wasn't working. So I couldn't do 'Alt-x' to do
> 'M-x' (so I had to do Esc-x instead). Similarly other key combinations
> involving Alt key didn't work either (Alt-v, Alt-f etc). Does anyone
> know why this is happeing or how to fix this?
> --
> Abhisek Paira
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> "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."

But you don't say where you run Emacs.  For example, here in macOS's
Terminal app, I had to tick "Use Option as Meta key" to make it work.

Filipp