From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sticky escape key Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:09:46 +0200 Message-ID: <8737yb2jgl.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <20150918164750569537901@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442631718 16344 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2015 03:01:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 03:01:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 19 05:01:48 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 1Zd8PK-0006Jg-Sj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:01:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd8PK-0005kL-Bk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 23:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd8PA-0005k5-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 23:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd8P7-0002z1-4W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 23:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd8P6-0002yh-V3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 23:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zd8P5-0005si-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:01:31 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:01:31 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 05:01:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RGpvIp8srNoplVnMcKVLCYJr5z8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:107244 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > You mapped it how? What did you do? Did you do it > with the keyboard? With the terminal? With X and > xmodmap? With setxkbmap? With a checkbox from your > desktop manager dialog box? Some other method? It seems to me from reading the OP's post that he succeeded remapping the left control key to the escape key, then he setup some shortcuts which uses the escape key, and those also work, only the key "sticks" - which is exactly what the escape key does! But: Escape already does what meta does only meta doesn't stick. When the OP sets up shortcuts with escape he might as well use meta! (Or it is actually better because it is what you expect.) Because: (global-set-key (kbd "ESC r") (lambda () (interactive) (message "ESC-r is M-r"))) Try this with escape and meta! So the OP should rebind the left control key to meta and that will do what he wants. > Yes. No. Maybe. It can't be done for emacs running in > a terminal because the terminal needs to know the > difference between escape and control. In the ttys, you can rebind escape with the familiar method [1]. The escape key has keycode 1. You can then do whatever with that key. Only it still "sticks"! I don't know if Emacs or the terminal does that, but I'll find out. [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/tty-emacs-keys.txt -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573