From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mapping ESC versus META
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:01:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511280901.jAS916in007322@beta.mvs.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yzl7jatlg3j.fsf@rgassoc-cs.local> (cstacy@news.dtpq.com)
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:24:20 GMT, cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy) wrote:
>
> I run several different versions of Emacs,
> and sometimes there is an actual key to be META.
> Is there a way I can bind a command to that key
> chord combination, but bind a different command
> to the ESC sequence? In other words, when I
> hold down the META shift key and press letter "Z",
> I would get one command, but when I type "ESC Z"
> I would get a different command.
Sure you can. Just add the following line to your .emacs:
(setq meta-prefix-char nil)
> On the Macintosh, the META key might be either
> the Command or the Option key. As it happens,
> I always have it set to be the Command key.
> I want this to work under X11 on the Mac, and Linux.
> It would be best if it also worked for MS Windows.
I don't know about Mac, but the above works well for X11 Emacs
on Linux and M$Windows (under Cygwin) and NTEmacs IIRC.
Ehud.
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