From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Two escapes as a prefix Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 03:11:45 +0000 Message-ID: <87iof6fqtq.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <20150212200349.GH1673@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423797132 30898 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2015 03:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 03:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tim Johnson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 13 04:12:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YM6fh-00015Q-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 04:12:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53093 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM6fg-0002zd-QI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM6fW-0002zX-Hq for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM6fT-00027o-AU for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.16]:47059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YM6fT-00024k-4S for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:11:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail05.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.26]) by outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFB5D2F803D for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 03:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 21841 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2015 03:11:45 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.79.140.129]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 13 Feb 2015 03:11:45 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20150212200349.GH1673@mail.akwebsoft.com> (message from Tim Johnson on Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:03:49 -0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.16 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:102694 Archived-At: Tim Johnson writes: > To be clear, I'm proposing alternate bindings, so possible > overwrites by incidental major or minor modes wouldn't "cripple" me. > > I'd welcome comments and observations. I expect I will be > edified serendipitously. That seems like a great idea. For some reason though it seems to interfer with the key's normal functioning. If I bind '(kbd "ESC M-p")' then the intended key works but, the normal 'p' key stops working. I could see why this could happen on terminals, though I don't understand why it happens on Emacs in X. BR, Robert Thorpe