From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M- vs. ESC Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:36:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105033224 6662 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 17:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 18:40:15 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 1CmbcN-0002bz-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:40:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cmbng-00007D-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:51:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmbnH-0008Qq-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:51:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmbnF-0008Pr-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:51:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmbnF-0008Pb-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:51:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmbYp-0001ho-2P; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:36:35 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81AE8282CB; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:36:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9FD4AC0F5; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:36:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A33BD8CA69; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:36:22 -0500 (EST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:14:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.668, requis 5, AWL 0.23, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:31959 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31959 >> Yes, I do, because that's what Emacs is receiving when I press >> Meta-left, for example. 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. > He did not say what his input terminal is. It may not be X. He said it's an xterm. I see the same behavior as he does. It's been that way for as long as I can remember (the Meta->ESC mapping done by xterm is an option, which needs to be ON if you want 8bit chars). Stefan