From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make Super key work in console Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:14:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8735y06nap.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tuqg585j.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <87pn12zbgc.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <875z2twank.fsf@zoho.eu> <83h7m6zpr5.fsf@gnu.org> <837dn2zm29.fsf@gnu.org> <8335xqzjnf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16942"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sp4hvBnHJtJ5uYRhEJ7Fl5pYsIE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 22:15:09 2021 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 1lDZam-0004JD-QD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:15:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57330 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDZal-0004gI-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:15:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDZZu-0004dt-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:14:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDZZt-00061I-J0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:14:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lDZZr-0003Hk-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:14:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io 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:128158 Archived-At: >> They should have used "ESC " for the meta key so you don't >> get conflicts like `M-O` conflicting with escape sequences that start >> with `ESC O`. > By "they" you mean Emacs? No, I'm talking about the terminal (emulators). > Because AFAIK it was Emacs which started translating "ESC KEY" to > Meta-KEY. And just as for `C-x @ `, this is acceptable for Emacs where it's more important to make sure the sequence is short, for the convenience of the user, even if it comes at the cost of introducing some occasional conflicts. For terminal emulators there's no such tradeoff to make. Stefan