From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Pasting texts into terminal emacs buffer Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:55:26 +0200 Message-ID: <877dsm5mht.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <87r1qw5rpx.fsf@buccianti.dev> <86lfh3rx8k.fsf@x201.butler.org> <87sgbbj7pi.fsf@yandex.com> <87o8lyogok.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <87o8lyjpr4.fsf@yandex.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31410"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vMb9Si0DkMjSMxl96xdTo+FDo6k= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 08:57:04 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kKcEZ-00083F-74 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55400 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKcEY-0002OX-8Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 02:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKcDA-0002Mr-5L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 02:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:55852 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKcD8-0003n4-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 02:55:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kKcD5-0006GR-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:55:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/22 02:21:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124133 Archived-At: Colin Baxter wrote: > Yes, I think that's correct. And I too can't > remember now the reasons for the setting. Without it the Meta key wont work! You have to use the ESC key! On old keyboards, ESC was located where the CAPS key is today. So it wasn't as distant. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal