From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M- vs. ESC Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:31:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <002601c4f255$7df00380$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104896533 27475 80.91.229.6 (5 Jan 2005 03:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 04:42:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cm23f-0000UG-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm2Et-0000KR-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:53:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm2Bg-0006mw-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm2Bb-0006kn-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cm2Ba-0006gu-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cm1zi-0003SZ-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Cm1tM-0003Go-2M; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:31:24 -0500 Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-reply-to: <002601c4f255$7df00380$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31869 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31869 > The equivalence of ESC and M- for characters is rather a kludge, > and perhaps some day we should reimplement that by implementing ESC > in some other way as an abbreviation for Meta-. Would no that break viper? I have no idea what viper does. Is there a specific reason why you think it would break?