From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rebinding ESC key Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:40:03 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20071106004849.0b023e7a@reforged> <987B5830-A657-490E-BFDE-454F37D50BA5@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194421253 24285 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2007 07:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 07 08:40:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IpfWv-00016D-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:40:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfWk-0006Y1-90 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfWR-0006WC-Q6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfWQ-0006Uz-QX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfWQ-0006UU-IN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpfWP-0001Xx-JH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:21 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpfWN-0000ju-45 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfWE-0005Y8-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:40:10 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:40:10 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:40:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Macintosh/20070809) In-Reply-To: <987B5830-A657-490E-BFDE-454F37D50BA5@Web.DE> X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:49059 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 06.11.2007 um 09:48 schrieb Mike Mattie: > >> How do I map the ESC key without altering M- bindings ? > > Using C-ESC? Is there no other key available like PtSc, ScLk, SysRq, > Brk, ...? > > The Esc and the Meta keys are somehow related to each-other. If a > keyboard has no functioning Meta key, then pressing Esc and then key > that would have been pressed together with the Meta key result to the > same event in GNU Emacs. You might try setting meta-prefix-char to a character other than ESC, perhaps a character you can't even type on your keyboard. Then bind that character to the ESC-prefix symbol. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA