From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Howard Yeh!" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Meta-key Madness (argh!!) Date: 2 Dec 2006 13:15:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1165094141.896169.63920@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1164867131.959727.245990@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165095668 30419 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2006 21:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 02 22:41:07 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 1GqcbR-0001M8-As for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:40:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GqcbR-0006wP-0q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:40:57 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.aset.psu.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.81.236.125 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1165094147 32500 127.0.0.1 (2 Dec 2006 21:15:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:15:47 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/2.0 (Swiftfox),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.81.236.125; posting-account=SUX7gQ0AAAB-8FRbE-5V1YHe8sG_NjBt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143609 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:39211 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >>>>> "Howard" == Howard Yeh! writes: > > Howard> (global-set-key "\C-[" 'insert-parentheses) > > Howard> unbinds all my meta keys, and pressing "C-[" gives me the > Howard> ESC key. What gives? > > That's because you're using a text-mode console, as opposed to running > Emacs under X, or Microsoft Windows, or OS X. > I am using emacs under X. And that's the truly bizarre thing is, C-[ works in my lisp mode keymap. (define-key slime-mode-map (kbd "C-[") 'insert-parentheses) Works perfect. > (They even do the same thing in my Windows Emacs, although there, I > suspect it might be possible to distinguish them, with some wizardry.) Oh, man. I tried so hard (in X). It's totally confusing. > Other than "use a window system" (which as you can see isn't even > sufficient), I can't think of one. Use a window system is NOT sufficient... Do you know if X-emacs better for key bindings?