From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: "L. Guruprasad" <lgp171188@gmail.com>
Cc: 18996@debbugs.gnu.org
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: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:14:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb50ztae.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545DD62F.3000106@gmail.com> (L. Guruprasad's message of "Sat, 08 Nov 2014 14:07:03 +0530")
On 2014-11-08, at 14:07, "L. Guruprasad" <lgp171188@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I press Alt-g as part of executing the shortcut M-g g, when running
> emacs within the terminal using the -nw flag, it shows up in the
> minibuffer as "Esc g-". But when I run the same in the GUI Emacs, it
> shows up as "M-g". This can be misleading and confusing to users who do
> not know Esc and Meta keys are equivalent.
Confirmed on GNU Emacs 25.1.50.6 (commit ac9a931).
> 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, but I don't think this would
really confuse anyone. (IMHO, if someone uses Emacs in a terminal, s?he
probably is advanced enough to know that M-g and Esc g are equivalent.)
--
Marcin Borkowski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-05 18:14 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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