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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Meta-key Madness (argh!!)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:29:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85fyc1bden.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1164867131.959727.245990@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com

"Howard Yeh!" <hayeah@gmail.com> writes:

> I can't figure out how to bind "C-["
>
> For some reason
>
> (global-set-key "\C-[" 'insert-parentheses)
>
> unbinds all my meta keys, and pressing "C-[" gives me the ESC key. What
> gives?

That's how things are on text terminals.  On graphical terminals,
(local-set-key [C-\[] 'insert-parentheses)
could conceivably make a difference, but apparently it doesn't.

> I also has trouble binding c-i, m-i, because they are synonyms for
> <TAB>. Though I have really ugly work around for them. Is there any
> established way to deal with this sort of problems?

Accept that ESC is the same as C-[.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-30  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30  6:12 Meta-key Madness (argh!!) Howard Yeh!
2006-11-30  7:25 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-11-30  7:29 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-12-02 21:24   ` Howard Yeh!
     [not found] ` <mailman.1344.1164872317.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-02 21:15   ` Howard Yeh!
2006-12-02 21:26 ` Howard Yeh!
2006-12-02 22:12   ` David Kastrup
2006-12-03  3:06     ` Howard Yeh!
2006-12-04 15:06   ` Johan Bockgård

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