From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:42:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh8ojtc1z.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d0z71985.fsf@gmail.com
> So Iʼve (finally) got an actual Meta key configured on my
> keyboard. Iʼve always believed that Esc-as-prefix and Meta were
> interchangable, but that doesnʼt seem to be the case:
The ESC <-> Meta equivalence only holds for characters, not for
"special keys" such as `left`, indeed. Not sure why.
> So this looks like Emacs is not taking into account the SHIFT modifier
> here?
What makes you think so? The "translated from" clearly shows that Emacs
saw the shift just fine.
> Or is there some default keyboard translation going on that I
> need to disable?
Why would you need to disable it?
IOW which part of "running left-word when I hit M-S-<left>" annoys you?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 13:28 ESC vs Meta for shifted keys Robert Pluim
2018-04-10 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-04-10 13:57 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-10 23:11 ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-11 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-11 19:54 ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-11 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-11 21:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-12 8:49 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-12 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-12 14:57 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-12 16:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-12 16:16 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-12 16:35 ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-12 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-12 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-12 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <86tvsiaoe3.fsf@zoho.com>
2018-04-10 23:26 ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-10 23:40 ` Bob Proulx
2018-04-15 0:30 ` Tim Johnson
[not found] ` <mailman.12411.1523752244.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15 0:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-15 15:50 ` Tim Johnson
2018-04-16 12:52 ` Robert Pluim
[not found] ` <mailman.11999.1523402811.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15 1:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-15 4:13 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.12416.1523765608.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-15 20:04 ` Emanuel Berg
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