all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Making ESC not a prefix key while keeping Alt = Meta
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:49:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <edukaa$i4h$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157748592.520351.123650@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Yevgeniy Makarov wrote:
> Since in my Emacs Alt key functions as Meta key, I never have to use
> Esc to enter Meta-something. Though this breaks with the long-lasting
> Emacs tradition, I would like to make ESC key call keyboard-quit
> function, similar to Ctrl-g. Of course, I'd like to keep Alt = Meta. Is
> it possible to do so?

I think so:

(global-set-key "\0" (global-key-binding "\e"))
(setq meta-prefix-char ?\0)
(global-unset-key "\e")

-- 
Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-09 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-08 20:49 Making ESC not a prefix key while keeping Alt = Meta Yevgeniy Makarov
2006-09-09 14:49 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.6687.1157813407.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-10  1:24   ` Yevgeniy Makarov
2006-09-11 15:20     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6777.1157988085.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-12  2:36       ` Yevgeniy Makarov

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='edukaa$i4h$1@sea.gmane.org' \
    --to=ihs_4664@yahoo.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.