Re: rebinding ESC key

[Amy Templeton <amy.g.templeton@gmail.com>]

don provan <dprovan@comcast.net> wrote:
> To this day, I occasionally find myself running emacs on systems or
> over communications paths where the META key doesn't work, so I have
> to fall back to ESC-] or whatever. Am I the only one that still
> encounters such klunky environments? Or am I just the only one old
> enough to think about using ESC because I grew up with it as the only
> option?

I didn't grow up with it as the only option (I started using Emacs a
couple of years ago), but it has on occasion come in handy--for example,
on my school's Macs (which are the closest thing they have to a usable
computer) they do have Emacs installed--but it's version 21.3 (not even
21.4!), with no graphical support, and there's no working ALT/META key,
so I have to settle for ESC. As a rule, I just try not to use the school
computers.

So no, you're not the only one who finds ESC useful on occasion :-).

Amy

-- 
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.