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From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Subject: Re: M-[
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 23:59:02 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a%oja.27$cO1.1882@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b6l2k3$t5l$1@news-int.gatech.edu

In article <b6l2k3$t5l$1@news-int.gatech.edu>,
greg jednaszewski  <greg@attenuated.org> wrote:
>I use swbuff.el for cycling through buffers, and I'd like to be able to
>bind M-[ to swbuff-switch-to-previous-buffer like so:
>
>(global-set-key (kbd "M-[") 'swbuff-switch-to-previous-buffer)
>
>However, I can't seem to be able to bind anything to simply M-[.  When I
>do describe-key on M-[, it expects another keypress, in the same way
>that C-x expects another keypress.
>
>What is the reasoning behind this, and is there any way around it?

On most ASCII terminals, special function keys (like arrow keys) send
sequences that begin with ESC [.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-04 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04 22:57 M-[ greg jednaszewski
2003-04-04 23:59 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2003-04-07 17:40   ` M-[ Peter Lee
2003-04-07 18:14   ` M-[ Kevin Rodgers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-24  7:57 M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-24  9:37 ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-24 10:13   ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-24 10:28     ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-27  4:05 ` M-= Chong Yidong
2012-07-27 10:59   ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 14:57     ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-27 16:24       ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 17:32         ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-29  3:33     ` M-= Chong Yidong
2012-07-27 17:30   ` M-= James Cloos
2012-07-27 19:02     ` M-= Andreas Röhler
2012-07-24  9:03 M-= Dmitry Gutov
2012-07-24  9:24 ` M-= Ulrich Mueller

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