Re: Help producing the Alt modifier

["Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>]

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On 01 May 2003 18:15:06 -0400, Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@rum.cs.yale.edu> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:
> > translates <escape> into ESC (which is the same as C-[).  There is
> > also additional magic that makes M-x be the same as ESC x, but I
> > don't know how that works.  It's different magic, I think.
> 
> Yes, that magic is hardcoded in keymap.c (mostly in access_keymap
> and Fdefine_key).  Note that it does not apply to Meta + function key,
> so ESC a == M-a but M-f8 != ESC f8.
>
> I think it would be interesting to make this less hard-coded and
> generalize it so that other modifiers can be mapped to prefixes.

M-<char> can be different from ESC <char> even in current emacs.
I use the following command:
       (setq meta-prefix-char nil)         ;; no meta char (ESC is escape)
and here are the key description for M-c and ESC c :
  M-c runs the command Alt-C
     which is an alias for `compute' in `FK'.
  ESC c runs the command capitalize-word

Ehud.


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