Re: Ctrl-[ ?

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2019-06-06 10:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 09:26:54 -0400
>>
>>> Why is it useful to have different behavior on GUI and TTY frames?
>>
>> It's not so much that it's useful to have different behavior; rather, there 
>> are limitations that only TTY frames suffer from, and if you mostly or 
>> always use GUI frames, it's nice not to suffer from these limitations.
> 
> That's not the same.  C-[ being the same as ESC is very basic, like
> C-g, so having to remember that it might not work on GUI frames would
> be a PITA at least for me.
> 
>> So I guess keeping a consistent experience in TTY and GUI frames isn't as 
>> important for me as improving the experience in GUI frames.
> 
> IMO, being able to bind C-[ to something else is not an important
> feature, not enough to break the compatibility.  But that's me.

I don't have a strong opinion :)  I very seldom have to use an Emacs with 
someone else's config, so I wouldn't be bothered if the option existed to 
rebind C-[ to something different from ESC.

By the way, is there a way to change what ESC does? If so, GUI users could just 
bind <escape> to esc-map and ESC to something else.