From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opt/Fn as meta? (emacs on macs) Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 16:28:14 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EBAD9FE.8010806@yahoo.com> References: <060520031719451942%ajanta@no.spam> <1a61f7e5.0305070021.5feb7ff6@posting.google.com> <080520031142459136%sunder_3291@hotmail.nospam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052433070 30024 80.91.224.249 (8 May 2003 22:31:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 22:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 09 00:31:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Dttd-0007kV-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2003 00:29:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DtuI-0004sJ-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 18:30:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052432885 18988410 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:360914 comp.sys.mac.system:586419 comp.emacs:79121 comp.emacs.xemacs:70848 gnu.emacs.help:112967 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9462 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9462 Sunder wrote: > The Esc key is so small and so far on my powerbook that I am ready to > try a different meta key. I want to understand how to do it, and if it > can lead to any problems (I will be using Aqua as well as X11 > programs). Remember that Esc and Meta are fundamentally different, even in a default X11 configuration: Meta is a modifier key (like Ctrl or Alt) that is pressed simultaneously with another key, whereas Esc is a prefix key that is pressed before another key (in order to simulate the Meta-modified key). -- Kevin Rodgers