From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Yevgeniy Makarov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Making ESC not a prefix key while keeping Alt = Meta Date: 8 Sep 2006 13:49:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1157748592.520351.123650@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157751646 9836 80.91.229.2 (8 Sep 2006 21:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 08 23:40:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLo5Q-0008Qv-U4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLo5Q-00006W-Ef for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.79.245.19 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1157748598 10117 127.0.0.1 (8 Sep 2006 20:49:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:49:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060726 Red Hat/1.5.0.5-0.el4.1 Firefox/1.5.0.5 pango-text,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.79.245.19; posting-account=jZLLag0AAACIndabW1GuVi-ROZuf5LGz Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141617 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37239 Archived-At: Since in my Emacs Alt key functions as Meta key, I never have to use Esc to enter Meta-something. Though this breaks with the long-lasting Emacs tradition, I would like to make ESC key call keyboard-quit function, similar to Ctrl-g. Of course, I'd like to keep Alt = Meta. Is it possible to do so? I am using Linux and GNU Emacs 21.3.1. Thank you.