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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: |
Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:14:44 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
> >
> > That is a surprise to me. Someone must have changed this in recent
> > years.
>
> In which way? What is the expected behaviour?
>
> That Meta-left turns into ESC left is strange.
As Stefan already explained this is an option in xterm. If you want to
handle 8-bit character input (including, but not limited to UTF-8) this is
required.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>, (continued)
- 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, 2005/01/05
- 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 <=
- 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