From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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 19:03:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5wtuq5taj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv652a5unz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:36:22 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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.
>
> He said it's an xterm.
Which is not X. So Emacs never gets to see Meta.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 18:03 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 [this message]
2005-01-06 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-06 19:20 ` David Kastrup
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