From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ctrl-[ ?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 08:58:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5zpig9gx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6F55E018-B15E-42B0-8794-21F55BBA23D3@traduction-libre.org
> I found on Stackoverflow that C-[ was pretty much hard-coded as
> ESC. Why is that ?
Under most terminals, `escape` and `C-[` send the same byte sequence,
i.e. a single byte 27 which corresponds to the ascii ESC character.
For this reason, when the GUI version of Emacs was introduced (where the
two keys are clearly distinguished), Emacs added `function-key-map`
entries to turn `escape` into ESC when there's no specific `escape`
binding (the mapping from `C-[` to ESC is done at a much lower level,
this one definitely counts as hardcoded).
Stefan
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2019-06-06 7:26 ` Ctrl-[ ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-06-06 8:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-06 10:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 12:37 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-06-06 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 13:28 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-06-06 12:44 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-06 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 13:25 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-06-06 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 6:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-07 8:34 ` joakim
2019-06-06 13:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-06-06 13:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-06-06 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 15:01 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-06-06 15:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-06-06 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 17:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-06-06 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 18:48 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-06-06 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 15:02 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-06-07 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-07 21:01 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-06-07 23:48 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-06-08 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-12 8:08 ` Søren Pilgård
2019-06-12 8:56 ` Ergus
2019-06-06 18:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-10 0:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-06-10 0:42 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-06-10 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 15:36 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-06-11 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-11 16:31 ` Yuri Khan
2019-06-12 12:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-06-12 12:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-06-12 13:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-06-12 13:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-06 13:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-06 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2019-06-06 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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