From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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, 5 Jul 2013 21:16:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5isizsbzhu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373051787 952 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2013 19:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 19:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Don Saklad Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 05 21:16:28 2013 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 1UvBUZ-0005Hs-VD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:16:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59617 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvBUZ-0006wn-Hj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35999) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvBUP-0006vh-0u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvBUO-0003Td-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:65002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvBUN-0003TR-NF; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([88.153.241.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb003) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MYO5B-1UhnK834EL-00V9zI; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:16:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <5isizsbzhu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:pfK1Xkztc0MG41ou66aKxKxI+jed6/jcm8XhqwHqqG2K7q/keQO 3fvrpJz1K343rsxtUL9JGZDvLzujOLbHsblIAudN036/020Q4tUwb+dubLDF2l4a12Ghtwc 6sxoCwv1IQI2ZoOfHDLWtBLTW6AN1oUCqQUGkEL4hFscNGtwYpjVkfhrGq7dVIr3pwFLY0G 57uaH2JoIF6TgkCWlASlA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.11 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:91966 Archived-At: Am 05.07.2013 um 21:03 schrieb Don Saklad: > What key is the Meta key? PCs?... Macs?=85 On the Mac it can be fn, ctrl, alt, cmd. >=20 > 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. -- Greetings Pete Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your = mind. - D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. = 9