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From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
To: Emacs <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Two escapes as a prefix
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:03:49 -0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150212200349.GH1673@mail.akwebsoft.com> (raw)

Using emacs 24 on Mac OS X 10.7. All keybindings are designed to be
used in terminal mode.
See
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html
as my main reference.

I've created a number of prefix keys using C-c and an alpha
character. It has occurred to me that some of the most commonly used
sequences could have briefer alternate bindings using two escapes as
a prefix.

Example : coming from vim, Control-[ is second nature and pressing
the control key and '[' twice is almost as fast.

Control-[ Control-[ Control-h 
shows me only

ESC ESC ESC     keyboard-escape-quit
and 
ESC M-:         eval-expression

This opens up the possibility of
ESC M-(a...z)

To be clear, I'm proposing alternate bindings, so possible
overwrites by incidental major or minor modes wouldn't "cripple" me.

I'd welcome comments and observations. I expect I will be
edified serendipitously. 

thanks
-- 
Tim 
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com



             reply	other threads:[~2015-02-12 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-12 20:03 Tim Johnson [this message]
2015-02-13  3:11 ` Two escapes as a prefix Robert Thorpe
2015-02-13  3:55   ` Tim Johnson
2015-02-15 16:35     ` Tim Johnson
2015-02-13  3:31 ` John Mastro

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