Sometimes your Terminal application captures these 'extended' bindings. If you know that your Terminal application isn't doing that (for instance, by using key sequence help like ` k M-`) then I don't have any other help to offer. I've always just accepted that org mode keybindings differ between terminal and gui. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 3:37 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary < jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On May 30, 2017, at 15:51, Nicolas Goaziou > wrote: > > > >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2017-05/msg00306.html > >> > >> Let me know if you need extra information. > > > > What happens if you replace, e.g., > > > > (org-defkey org-mode-map [(meta left)] 'org-metaleft) > > > > with > > > > (org-defkey org-mode-map (kbd "M-") 'org-metaleft) > > > > in "org.el"? > > Nothing changes. > > Jean-Christophe > >