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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Craig Muth <craig.muth@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Escape key as C-g
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 02:31:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a97ju9ys.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA0bO3FBSLZO2B814oz2_yy8_5Ps+ifnPJUs0xDxVmEbre2fNg@mail.gmail.com> (Craig Muth's message of "Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:45:28 -0700")

> Regarding making the Escape key behave like C-g, this seems to work
> fine in GUI emacs, but not terminal emacs:
>
>   (define-key key-translation-map "\e" (kbd "C-g"))
>
> Anyone know of some sort of settings change or other I could make to
> get this to work in emacs running in a terminal?

I recommend a more handy `keyboard-escape-quit' that takes care
of additional contexts for a single ESC in GUI, and leaves ESC
as a prefix key in a terminal:

  (define-key global-map [escape] 'keyboard-escape-quit)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-04 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-04 20:45 Escape key as C-g Craig Muth
2014-08-04 20:56 ` Drew Adams
2014-08-04 23:31 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2014-08-05  0:26   ` Craig Muth
2014-08-05  7:21     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-08-05  1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-05 15:26 ` raman
2014-08-05 21:17   ` Craig Muth
2014-08-05 21:52     ` T.V Raman
2014-08-06 19:37       ` Craig Muth

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