Re: Running Emacs without any display server

[Jean Louis]

* Abhiseck Paira <abhiseckpaira@disroot.org> [2021-05-19 05:54]:
> 
> 
> > Which distro are you using? I'm on Slackware current and I just tried
> > running emacs in a tty and alt works as expected.
> 
> I run Parabola, an Arch based distibution. But Emacs is installed using
> Guix package manager. I'd have said so but I thought it will be same
> across all distributions. Also I am running Emacs version 27.2 and the
> problem exist even when I run with emacs -Q option.

Me too, on one of computers there is Parabola GNU/Linux-libre and
Emacs M-x works in console quite well, but without Guix stuff. On a
remote server I have guix package manager, and Emacs works fine
through terminal. 

I am thinking if it is related maybe to readline and your locale.

-- 
Jean

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