From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 18996-done@debbugs.gnu.org, lgp171188@gmail.com
Subject: bug#18996: 24.4; Pressing Alt-g shows Esc g- when running emacs inside terminal and in GUI mode it shows M-g
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:01:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9ggxk95.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pov4rj38.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:10:51 +0200")
On 2016-03-08, at 19:10, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Cc: lgp171188@gmail.com, 18996@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:47:48 +0100
>>
>> >> > Further, when I press Alt-x, it shows up as M-x in both the
>> >> > scenarios. So it doesn't look like Emacs cannot differentiate between
>> >> > the two when running inside the terminal without a GUI.
>> >>
>> >> This is not true: M-x is bound (by default) to
>> >> `execute-extended-command', which calls `read-extended-command', which
>> >> has at one point the literal string "M-x ", which is fed (via
>> >> a `concat', which shows prefix arguments, if any) directly to
>> >> `completing-read'.
>> >>
>> >> > I vaguely remember seeing M-g in the terminal on pressing Alt-g some
>> >> > time back, maybe in an older emacs version. But not sure.
>> >>
>> >> No idea, though I doubt.
>> >>
>> >> All in all, I'll assign this a "wishlist" level - I agree with the OP
>> >> that it would be nice to have this solved
>> >
>> > To have what solved?
>> >
>> > If you type "C-h l" after M-x, what do you see?
>>
>> AFAIU, OP wants to see "M-g-" and not "ESC g-" after pressing M-g in an
>> Emacs session in a terminal.
>
> My point was that you will see "ESC g" in the "C-h l" output. Which
> means Emacs _doesn't_ know how to differentiate between ESC-x and M-x,
> on the level that shows the prefix key prompts, such as M-g-. What
> happens here is that the command bound to "ESC x" deliberately
> displays "M-x " in the echo area. IOW, "M-x" is _not_ the key echo,
> it's a message displayed by a command.
>
> In sum, Emacs doesn't have a way to distinguish between M-c and ESC c,
> for any character c, on a TTY. We can only do that on a GUI frame.
OK, so I'm tagging this "wontfix" and closing it.
Best,
--
Marcin
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-08 8:37 bug#18996: 24.4; Pressing Alt-g shows Esc g- when running emacs inside terminal and in GUI mode it shows M-g L. Guruprasad
2016-03-05 18:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-05 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-08 16:47 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-08 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-08 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-09 6:01 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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