From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M vs C-[ Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:05:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87bows4tjd.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310929628 29342 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2011 19:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:07:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 17 21:07:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiWg9-00056c-0K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:07:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiWg8-0003v4-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59171) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiWeq-0003uw-1c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiWep-0006aR-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiWeo-0006aN-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:05:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiWen-0004cw-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:05:37 +0200 Original-Received: from 77-23-199-184-dynip.superkabel.de ([77.23.199.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:05:37 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by 77-23-199-184-dynip.superkabel.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:05:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77-23-199-184-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hGITgy+Fb2k4zwPamLqrNoEwwvI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:81635 Archived-At: C K Kashyap writes: Hi! > Looks like I can use C-[ to get the M key effect. You can also use ESC: C-M-\ can be typed as ESC C-\ > However, I noticed that M-C-\ to indent a region does not quite work > when I do C-[ C-\ It does here. Are you sure it acts differently from C-M-\? (While trying out, I found that `indent-region' doesn't always indent, but its docs (C-h k ESC C-\) tell you how it determines if and to where it indents.) Actually, you can force it to indent using a prefix arg: C-u 4 C-M-\ ;; indent to 4th column C-u 4 C-[ C-\ ;; ditto C-u 4 ESC C-\ ;; ditto Bye, Tassilo