From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: meta key problem C-M-\ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <8764rmapgz.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130227778 29538 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2005 08:09:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 25 10:09:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUJqq-0005op-QO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:08:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUJqM-00061e-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:07:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.news2me.com!canoe.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1130222983 35110 169.229.140.13 (25 Oct 2005 06:49:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:49:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never Originator: ilya@powdermilk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134959 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:30548 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Stefan Monnier ], who wrote in article <8764rmapgz.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>: > > A decade ago I wrote "a universal solver" for such problems: > > modifier.el. A (possibly severely crippled) version is included in > > Emacs. In short, you can replace control- by using some prefix key. > > I usually bind C-F12 to be a replacement for control- prefix (likewise > > for other modifiers). > I can't find your modifier.el Actually, right now I repopulated ilyaz.org/software/emacs. It should be in "el" archive 2005-09. > but maybe it's been renamed/integrated and > has turned into the C-x @ thingy: C-x @ c is a prefix which adds a control > modifier to the next key. Right. RMS rewrote it some way; since I did not use his version, I did not know for a year or more that his version was severely broken (e.g., it did not work with terminal keyboard sequences like F1). It was discussed here on g.e.h... Maybe it works better now, checking... No, it is still borken with 21.2... Hope this helps, Ilya