From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: weird key bindings... Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 09:01:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83y3teevcr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6BFEF22A-2A4A-4320-81A5-FF78D613ADF7@gmail.com> <83bmqbft49.fsf@gnu.org> <6C1B33D9-DC6C-4191-891E-302759F28194@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496124126 11910 195.159.176.226 (30 May 2017 06:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 06:02:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 08:02:02 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaEE-0002tv-M0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 08:02:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaEI-0003kb-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:02:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50121) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaDp-0003j9-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaDm-0002PS-JW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaDm-0002PK-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1729 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dFaDl-00025F-G0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 02:01:34 -0400 In-reply-to: <6C1B33D9-DC6C-4191-891E-302759F28194@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Tue, 30 May 2017 08:11:32 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113268 Archived-At: > From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 08:11:32 +0900 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" > > >> So isn't the above expected? There are no function keys on a TTY, > >> they generate either ASCII characters or sequences of ASCII > >> characters. > > > > The surprising thing in this particular case is that M-left behaves > > differently from ESC left. That is possible on a GUI Emacs, but the > > expectation is that Meta and ESC have the same effect. > > Is there anything I can do about it ? It's confusing to use GUI emacs (on mac only ?) and not be able to access expected shortcuts out of the box. I think you should report this to Org developers.