Re: Ctrl-[ ?

[Francis Belliveau <f.belliveau@comcast.net>]

I think that a lot of you are missing the point that was made early on in the discussion.  This mapping of ASCII cntrol characters is a definition made by convention since the day of the Teletype machines.  It is how the ASCII character set was defined.

Some OS/driver implementations may hide it entirely from the application at the keyboard driver level.  When that it the case there would be no way for emacs to tell the difference between the C-[ and ESC keys because the OS-level keyboard driver sends the same code for both.  Think of these as synonyms.

If you are having trouble, the problem may be at that level or possibly in the "term-caps" definition in use.

Personally, I use C-i, C-[ as often as I use the backspace/delete and meta or escape keys.  It it just a matter of what is easier to use based on where my fingers, or what other keys I need to hit, are at the time.

Good Luck,
Fran


> On Jun 7, 2019, at 12:30, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 03:45:29PM +0200, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> One thing that I'll like to know is why the hard restriction about
>> C-[/C-i exists at all.
> 
> As we've found out, it's not a hard restriction. Just a strong
> suggestion.
> [...]
> Cheers
> -- tomás