From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Meta-key Madness (argh!!) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:29:36 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85fyc1bden.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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 1164872549 14675 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2006 07:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 08:42:28 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 1GpgYr-0006c5-2r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:42:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpgYq-0004g0-NQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:42:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed-fusi2.netcologne.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r8P2SLwr0+vfHSU7ey3YyivViYc= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Nov 2006 08:29:37 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c4897c62.newsspool4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=3EJ7Z?VD; RD02Sh8E_NfIA4IUK 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:39122 Archived-At: "Howard Yeh!" 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 > . 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