From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a) What ways can Meta be put in a command?... b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 22:57:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppuwg1xy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.361.1373051779.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>> b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x
>
> In a terminal emulation M-x does not exist, you have to use
> Esc-x. The GNU Emacs variants with some windowing support also
> support the Esc-x work-around.
On paleo-computers, was the Escape key placed anywhere else than
it is on today's keyboards? The reason I ask is - well, just try
hitting a couple of familiar shortcuts, but instead of Meta, use
Escape. I think it would take a master at the accordion to be
productive using that.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 19:03 a) What ways can Meta be put in a command?... b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x Don Saklad
2013-07-05 19:16 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.361.1373051779.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-05 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-07-05 21:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-05 21:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-06 1:47 ` Bob Proulx
2013-07-06 12:48 ` Thomas Shannon
[not found] ` <mailman.407.1373114918.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-06 17:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.383.1373075250.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-07 18:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-08 16:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-09 17:34 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.700.1373391163.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-09 19:43 ` Emanuel Berg
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