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: Two escapes as a prefix Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:03:49 -0900 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20150212200349.GH1673@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 1423771467 9695 80.91.229.3 (12 Feb 2015 20:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:04:27 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 21:04:18 2015 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 1YLzzj-0004kq-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:04:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLzzi-00069U-3v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:04:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLzzV-00069M-M8 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLzzQ-0005Bd-KU for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:04:01 -0500 Original-Received: from 191-232-4-64.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:64697 helo=tj49.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLzzQ-0005BK-Cj for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: by tj49.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 287F65AA2469; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:03:49 -0900 (AKST) Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x 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:102684 Archived-At: 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