From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a) What ways can Meta be put in a command?... b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:03:33 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <8761woyb16.fsf@informatimago.com> References: <5isizsbzhu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ppuwg1xy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373058315 31747 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2013 21:05:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:05:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 05 23:05:18 2013 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 1UvDBu-0007ws-BE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvDBt-0001LO-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:05:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net oC98hiT4reiGD+SiUhLoawoUCiqucLX8NyeCCVg/JW5hnEvEFG Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTY2ZDdkM2U0ODU2ZTE2Mzg2Y2RkMzM1MzVmNjNlZjFiMGZmZjQyNQ== sha1:b0BgcUKpDGm8+krkVNpVAco6XDY= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199703 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:91970 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Peter Dyballa writes: > >>> b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x >> >> In a terminal emulation M-x does not exist, you have to use >> Esc-x. The GNU Emacs variants with some windowing support also >> support the Esc-x work-around. > > On paleo-computers, was the Escape key placed anywhere else than > it is on today's keyboards? The reason I ask is - well, just try > hitting a couple of familiar shortcuts, but instead of Meta, use > Escape. I think it would take a master at the accordion to be > productive using that. Yes, some early keyboards had instead of TAB: http://www.pdp8.net/asr33/pics/kbd_top.shtml?large Notice that it is also C-[ So you can type C-[ x or M-x or ESC x -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. You know you've been lisping too long when you see a recent picture of George Lucas and think "Wait, I thought John McCarthy was dead!" -- Dalek_Baldwin