C-M-<char> keybindings in terminal

Fri Jan 13 09:56:07 CET 2012

Am Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:02:53 -0600
schrieb Leo Alekseyev <dnquark at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just noticed that Evil doesn't play well with C-M-<something>
> bindings when emacs is run under terminal -- just try it with emacs
> -nw.  These bindings all appear to map to evil-esc.  (Compare with
> emacs -Q -nw, these bindings will be interpreted correctly). This is
> somewhat annoying, since I often run emacs in screen sessions on
> remote machines.  I know that terminal handling of modifier keys can
> be an interesting subject, but it would be nice if this behavior were
> fixed.

Could you please give a full example what does not work? Does the
keybinding not work or is it just C-h k?

In the first case that's serious bug and we need a more detailed bug
description (e.g., on my machine C-M-x works very well). In the second
case this is a well known bug [1] and a fix is underway (available in
the fix-esc branch).

Frank

[1] https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/63/c-h-k-reports-is-undefined