From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M- vs. ESC Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:14:47 +0100 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 1105028156 21978 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 16:15:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 17:15:46 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 1CmaIc-0001dX-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:15:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmaTv-0008Sh-89 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:27:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmaTf-0008S9-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:27:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmaTe-0008RD-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:27:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmaTe-0008R0-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:27:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmaI4-0008Dd-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmaBM-0007p1-87; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:08:16 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:54:54 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:31957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31957 Richard Stallman writes: > 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum