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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:52:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in8rl3ef.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180415155051.GD31322@mail.akwebsoft.com> (Tim Johnson's message of "Sun, 15 Apr 2018 07:50:51 -0800")

Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:

>   And lastly, using ESC means that one need not press all chars at
>   once, but can do so sequentially. IOWS, ESC is a leader, not a
>   modifier, or so that's how I think of it.
>

XEmacs has/had a feature where all the modifier keys worked like
prefix keys, so you could type C-M-S as three distinct keystrokes. I
suspect various accessibility functions allow you to achieve the same
these days.

>   "Each to his own and each's own is different"
>     -- Alaskus Curmudgeous

Indeed.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-16 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11969.1523366938.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <86tvsiaoe3.fsf@zoho.com>
2018-04-10 23:26   ` ESC vs Meta for shifted keys Bob Proulx
2018-04-10 23:40     ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-15  0:30   ` Tim Johnson
     [not found]   ` <mailman.12411.1523752244.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15  0:50     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-15 15:50       ` Tim Johnson
2018-04-16 12:52         ` Robert Pluim [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11999.1523402811.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15  1:06     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-15  4:13       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]       ` <mailman.12416.1523765608.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15 20:04         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-10 13:28 Robert Pluim
2018-04-10 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-10 13:57   ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-10 23:11   ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-11 12:34     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-11 19:54       ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-11 21:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-11 21:58           ` Drew Adams
2018-04-12  8:49             ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-12 14:52               ` Drew Adams
2018-04-12 14:57                 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-12 16:02                   ` Drew Adams
2018-04-12 16:16                     ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-12 16:35                       ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-12 16:53                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-12 16:48                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-12 11:31             ` Eli Zaretskii

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