From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Alt Vs. Esc Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:21:44 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20140829002144.GA15079@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409271735 5141 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2014 00:22:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:22:15 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 02:22:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XN9xB-0003pP-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:22:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XN9x9-0006AF-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XN9wv-00069w-CJ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XN9wp-0004RA-Vz for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from 191-232-4-64.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:43130 helo=tj49.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XN9wp-0004Qn-Ni for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: by tj49.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EFFA3122DE2; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:21:44 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99492 Archived-At: I used emacs years ago, and I am now reacquainting myself with it. I'm using version 24 on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit on a Mac Mini with the classic gnome and fluxbox desktops. I also expect to be using emacs whilst secure shelling into the machine above from a netbook using lubuntu/fluxbox. This topic has - I'm sure - already been covered, so I would be happy with URIs to discussions on the topic or paths to info/help. If I run emacs from gnome-terminal where I have mapped alt-(1 - n) to tab-(1 - n), then I still get digit-argument where I use Esc-(1 - n). That's a good thing..... I note also that emacs distinguishes between binding (as an example) Alt-F9 and Esc-F9, that's all good too. Can I expect these configurations to be portable? Any other discussions related to this topic are of interest to me also. (See paragraph 3 above). thanks -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com