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48 questions linked to/from Problems with keybindings when using terminal
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emacs on terminal does not recognise option as alt-key on mac
I am on a mac and I am running emacs 24.4.1, but I have the same problem also with 22.1.1. When I open mac on a terminal on the remote host, it does not recognise option key (alt) like the meta key. I ...
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How to bind C-i as different from TAB?
I want to make Control-i perform indent-region (basically since Xcode has built that muscle memory already).
I realise that Control-i and tab are indistinguishable in the Ascii sense, but they are in ...
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How to use a Mac's Command key as a Control key?
I'm new to Emacs, and am using a Mac. I want the Mac command key to act as a control key for Emacs.
How do I do that? I tried (setq mac-command-modifier 'control).
Besides, how do I find key ...
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Shift+Up isn't recognized by Emacs in a terminal
Very often I use Shift+Up/Down to select a region in Emacs. It works fine in GUI mode, but when emacs is invoked with -nw option I can select lines only with Shift+Down. The Shift+Up doesn't work, I ...
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What does S mean in emacs keybinding notation (org-mode) [duplicate]
Looking at the keybindings here http://orgmode.org/guide/Structure-editing.html#Structure-editing, it asks us to use
M-S-<RET>
to add a TODO at the same level. What does the S here mean? I ...
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Use the command key in Terminal on OSX?
Is there a way to use the Apple command key in Emacs in the terminal? It would be nice to expand the set of easy to get at key bindings I can use.
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binding M-[ causes mouse focus to insert characters
I have bound M-[ to backward-paragraph. This causes a problem in terminal mode, whereby every time the mouse enters or leaves the frame (i.e., Emacs gains or loses focus), the characters I and O are ...
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Keycode for `Shift + Return` on OS X iterm2
I'm currently trying to learn org-mode in OS X. And I found there's a keymap M-S-RET. But S-RET is not recognized in the iTerm2.
It seems like terminal interpret S-RET and RET as same.
iTerm2 can ...
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Emacs inside Tmux problem
This might have an obvious answer but I've been trying to fix this issue with no luck. (I'm new to Emacs)
Whenever I start Emacs within a Tmux pane, it ignores some of my .emacs settings. These are ...
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What linux terminal app is compatible with emacs keybindings?
I am using terminal Emacs (emacs -nw). Gnome terminal doesn't behave well with it (key bindings break), and KDE's Konsole is even worse. Surprisingly, when I ssh from a windows machine the behavior is ...
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Custom C-M-; key binding
I have a custom comment-dwim-line command that I want to bind to the key combination C-M-; (in other words, control, meta and ; buttons pressed simultaneously). The built-in comment-dwim command is ...
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OS X Terminal.app C-M-commands
So, in Mac OSX, I'm trying to switch to using Emacs in Terminal.app, but things like C-M-SPC and C-M-% don't work. After a bit of googling I came across this (mostly) unanswered question
https://...
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How to make emacs recognise C + SHIFT combinations in terminal mode?
Emacs cannot currently pick up C-SHIFT sequences in terminal mode. For example, C-) and C-( are instead just read as 0 and 9 respectively. I'm aware that using GUI mode is one way around this, but I ...
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Making command act as super in iTerm2
I've bound cmd-P in emacs to some function. It is working in emacs when I start the cocoa version but I can't make it work in console mode when running in iterm.
I made iTerm2 ignore the keystroke ...
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Why doesn't "C-;" "C-,", or "C-." work in a terminal emulator? (OS X Terminal, Iterm2) [duplicate]
I have bound "C-;" to 'other-window in my config like so.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'other-window)
When I run emacs outside of a terminal, this keybinding works as I would expect. Inside Iterm2 ...
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