emacs22-nox and terminal app

[Florian Diesch]

EL <elim at elinkage.net> wrote:

> In ubuntu desktop 8.10, i  insstallled emacs22-nox. Hoping to use it in a
> traditional way: in a shall.
> Since the terminal app's menubar uses alt prefixed hotkeys, the metakey of
> emacs stopping work.
> So I have to turn teh menubar off everytime I use emacs. I wonder if there
> is a way to config my terminal defaulting to no menubar?
>
> Even if the menubar is turned off, I think c-w is not working. So I really
> need to know how to make emacs22-nox work correctly, or I have to use emacs
> gui?

gnome-terminal defines a lot of key bindings that may interfere with
emacs. The easiest way is to use a simpler terminal like xterm to
start emacs in.


   Florian
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