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From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: 13484@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13484: 24.3.50; ESC <f10> is undefined
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 23:24:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130206232446.19f7d293ae8d7f8af558cf5e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130206232153.0bf8893a401cb1f9a3a32b85@gmail.com>

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 23:21:53 +0800
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> wrote:

> In (info "(elisp) Format of Keymaps"):
> 
>    Keymaps do not directly record bindings for the meta characters.
> Instead, meta characters are regarded for purposes of key lookup as
> sequences of two characters, the first of which is <ESC> (or whatever
> is currently the value of `meta-prefix-char').  Thus, the key `M-a' is
> internally represented as `<ESC> a', and its global binding is found at
> the slot for `a' in `esc-map' (*note Prefix Keys::).
> 
> So is there a bug in the GNU Emacs Lisp manual?

Sorry, I ignored the next paragraph, which is:

   This conversion applies only to characters, not to function keys or
other input events; thus, `M-<end>' has nothing to do with `<ESC>
<end>'.

-- 
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao





  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-06 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-18  4:24 bug#13484: 24.3.50; ESC <f10> is undefined Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-18  7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-18  8:18   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-18 10:51   ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-18 11:06     ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-19  3:10       ` Bastien
2013-01-19  3:03         ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-06 15:21   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-06 15:24     ` Xue Fuqiao [this message]
2013-01-18 21:51 ` Juri Linkov
2013-01-21  2:54   ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-21 10:45     ` Juri Linkov

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