From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Escape key as C-g Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 02:31:07 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87a97ju9ys.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407197469 20447 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2014 00:11:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 00:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Craig Muth Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 02:11:01 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XESLD-0002ke-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2014 02:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XESLC-0008MJ-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:10:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XESL2-0008M6-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XESKu-0003dp-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from alc-vshost7.dreamhost.com ([69.163.216.107]:56278 helo=ps18281.dreamhostps.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XESKu-0003dc-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.jurta.org (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.222.226]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC155304F02DDF; Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:10:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Craig Muth's message of "Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:45:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 69.163.216.107 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173419 Archived-At: > 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)