Meta and Escape

Meta and Escape

[carsten]

Hi,

are there any clear rules when a key binding using meta will be
automatically translated into the corresponding binding using the
escape key?  I find that my version of Emacs (latest Emacs 23 pretest)
behaves somewhat eratic, it seems to me.

For example:

 A binding to [(meta ?a)]  will also affect ESC-a
 A binding to [(meta return)] will not cause Esc-return to be defined.

Doe anyone know the rules of this game?

Thanks.

- Carsten

Re: Meta and Escape

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.05.2009 um 12:37 schrieb carsten:

>  A binding to [(meta ?a)]  will also affect ESC-a
>  A binding to [(meta return)] will not cause Esc-return to be defined.


Maybe you've discovered a bug, maybe it happens that your system's  
locale (or windowing system) does or does not translations of 8-bit  
control characters ...

M-<something> is meant to be adequate to ESC-<something>. To find out  
what might be causing it you could try to bind the key combination in  
different ways, for example:

	(define-key map "\e\r"     'whatever)

and also check what you see when you type, for example in *scratch*  
buffer, C-q M-RET.

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