From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Binding meta and arrow Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:49:52 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87ekc7uq6t.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116358888 17077 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2005 19:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:41:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 17 21:41:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DY7tl-0001o0-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 21:38:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DY7w3-0008U2-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 15:40:59 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EznRZ0QqPMfaFZ3f5nMentHfG1U= Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.68.217.114 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1116258591 67.68.217.114 (Mon, 16 May 2005 11:49:51 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:49:51 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131154 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26754 > I'm trying to make emacs bind "M-arrow" to things. > I know other applications can use the key combination in the same > environment (on the console, using putty and screen) and it seems emacs > itself can handle it; when I go "C-h c M-left" it says "ESC is > undefined" Although "ESC a" is equivalent to "M-a", this is not true of function keys like "left" where "M-left" is not the same as "ESC left". Stefan