From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ctrl-[ ? Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:25:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <08AC8151-5911-40FA-8B20-818B839D00AB@traduction-libre.org> <20190606134205.GB14057@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="261370"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 06 16:26:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtLG-0015qx-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:26:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtLE-0006cN-NE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtKq-0006aK-6z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:25:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtKo-0004q1-8u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33198 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtKm-0004aG-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtKj-0015F6-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:25:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:OAK2ReNE4E+d+NViUlD7V4PYSMs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120776 Archived-At: > That explains something (thank you) but not why emacs needs to stick to that. As I explained, it doesn't "stick" to it, in the sense that it is not hardcoded. For example you can remove the `escape` => ESC mapping from function-key-map. And even without that, you can simply add bindings to `escape` and they will be used when you hit `escape` but not when you hit C-[ See also https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17509 where I show some other possibility (tho in the context of `tab` vs `C-i` vs TAB, but which is exactly the same problem). Stefan