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Pablo
Pablo

Reputation: 11031

emacs term mode not recognizing commands

I recently upgraded to emacs 24.4, and whenever I try to execute a command while in the term (e.g. C-x C-f to open a file), it will just say C-x C-f is undefined.

How can I enable commands to run in the term mode?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1068

Answers (1)

vukung
vukung

Reputation: 1884

In emacs term, a lot of keystrokes are disabled as to let the programs in the terminal handle them - most keys involving C-x are remapped to C-c, e.g. C-c C-f for find-file.

If you want to use term in the same way as a shell, you can change to "line mode" with C-c C-j, where keys are processed by emacs. If you want to go back to directly sending keys to the terminal, press C-c C-k ("char mode").

Details are in the manual.

Upvotes: 8

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