From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:30:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvis6a4drq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5wtuq5taj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:03:32 +0100")
>>>> 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.
> Which is not X. So Emacs never gets to see Meta.
Please re-read: he presses M-left, which xterm turns into [?\e ?\e ?O ?D]
and which function-key-map transforms to [?\e left] and the lookup with
[?\e left] fails to find the M-left binding to backward-word.
In contrast, M-C-f is turned by xterm into [?\e ?\C-f] which
function-key-map leaves alone and the lookup for [?\e ?\C-f] successfully
finds the M-C-f binding to forward-sexp.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 18:30 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
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 [this message]
2005-01-06 19:20 ` David Kastrup
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