From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: carsten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Meta and Escape Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 03:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243248127 20663 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2009 10:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:42:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 25 12:42:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M8Xd0-00051w-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 12:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8Xcz-0001fQ-GW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 06:41:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!g37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.57.128.176 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243247853 26207 127.0.0.1 (25 May 2009 10:37:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.57.128.176; posting-account=rMVZ2gkAAABQv0skn5Eeg93PUiIKf4xx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169446 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64679 Archived-At: Hi, are there any clear rules when a key binding using meta will be automatically translated into the corresponding binding using the escape key? I find that my version of Emacs (latest Emacs 23 pretest) behaves somewhat eratic, it seems to me. For example: A binding to [(meta ?a)] will also affect ESC-a A binding to [(meta return)] will not cause Esc-return to be defined. Doe anyone know the rules of this game? Thanks. - Carsten