From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:02:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jer7l1wdnv.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ClfUh-0007eJ-EG@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:36:27 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> 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). This problem does not exist for S-<func> and C-<func> bindings
as long as they can be generated on a tty in the first place.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-04 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-03 15:16 M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key> Andreas Schwab
2005-01-04 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 12:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-05 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 13:02 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2005-01-05 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-05 19:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-06 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-06 12:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-07 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-07 6:36 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-07 13:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-06 16:14 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-06 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-06 18:03 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-06 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-06 19:20 ` David Kastrup
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