From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Jorge Morais Neto <jorge13515@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ESC key experience with new MacBook Pro?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:56:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5Uwy3px4XEgqrzC_OdmN3z39ORqyVwCMUSmmWOByY3DTtA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJR3QneeWaeMBgcqeuAPzHkj7jdjikrHuCJQ-bsv5iybHvj5+w@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks, Jorge. I'm aware there is more than one way to get an ESC. I was
specifically wondering if lack of a physical ESC key was problematic for
people who were used to it. (I've been using one version of Emacs -
gosmacs, XEmacs, GNU Emacs, microemacs, jove, jed, etc - or another since
the early 80s. Old habits die hard.)
Skip
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jorge Morais Neto <jorge13515@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 12 December 2016 at 13:37, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is only peripherally related to Emacs, but as I've been using
> > Emacs since the dawn of time and for some reason never really learned
> > to press the Alt key, my Emacs Alt key usage has always been dominated
> > by use of the ESC key. I thought some of my fellow Emacs tribe members
> > would have some input.
>
> I use a non-Apple notebook and it has an ESC key. However, I believe I
> have a
> very useful tip for you: "C-[". For Emacs that key is equivalent to ESC.
> I
> use it frequently, because it is often easier to type than ESC. For
> example,
> to repeat complex commands, C-x C-[ C-[ is easier to type than C-x ESC
> ESC. In
> fact, I often prefer "C-[ *" to "M-*". For example, I prefer C-[ C-i to
> C-M-i.
>
> Regards.
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 15:37 ESC key experience with new MacBook Pro? Skip Montanaro
2016-12-13 0:23 ` Jorge Morais Neto
2016-12-13 19:56 ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
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