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Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key> |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:43:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > There doesn't seem to be a translation between M-<function-key> and
> ESC
> > <function-key> for the purpose of keymap lookup.
> >
> > That is true, but I don't think it is a problem.
>
> IMHO it is. Currently you need to bind both M-<func> and ESC <func> to be
> effective for both tty and X (including keyboards without a Meta
> modifier).
>
> Emacs doesn't treat ESC followed by a function key as equivalent to
> Meta, so I don't think you need to bind the former at all.
Yes, I do, because that's what Emacs is receiving when I press Meta-left,
for example. More specifically, when I type Meta-left at Emacs running in
xterm it receives the key sequence [?\e ?\e ?O ?D], which gets translated
to [?\e left] through function-key-map.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Andreas Schwab, 2005/01/03
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/03
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Lennart Borgman, 2005/01/04
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Andreas Schwab, 2005/01/04
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/04
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Andreas Schwab, 2005/01/06
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Miles Bader, 2005/01/07
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Andreas Schwab, 2005/01/07
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, David Kastrup, 2005/01/06
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/06
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, David Kastrup, 2005/01/06
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/06
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, David Kastrup, 2005/01/06