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Re: Alt-x not working
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Steve Graham |
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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
Re: Alt-x not working, Ian Zimmerman, 2015/07/23