On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:18:22PM +0200, Veljko wrote: > > Acording to Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition "The Alt modifier (i.e., > Alt-?) is in fact a short way of pressing and releasing Esc before > entering the key combination; hence Esc then f is the same as > Alt-f--UNIX is different from other operating systems in this use of > Esc." > > Maybe your /etc/inputrc is mapped some other way?
Ah, yes, xterm was killing the alt. For future xterm users, adding: xterm*metaSendsEscape: true to your ~/.Xresources (and running xrdb ~/.Xresources and restarting xterm) fixes the issue. It seems strange to me that what-key worked but the binding w/o the fix didn't, but I'll leave it as one of life's great mysteries. Thanks! \t
