From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: posts@grierwhite.com (Christopher J. White) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc! Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:18:52 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <140120041853024358%stupidnewsprogram@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074141323 25782 80.91.224.253 (15 Jan 2004 04:35:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 05:35:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AgzE0-0007z4-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AgzA5-0005PJ-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:31:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T5CXPwXWqABEM9dGjF5pqmMCy9I= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 23 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120111 comp.emacs:82837 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16054 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16054 timmcn> There's nothing preposterous about it. eden> Nothing? Not even a little? The Esc key is *not* even a real eden> modifier key, it's in the upper left hand corner, (only), so even if eden> it were a mod key, I'd have to type the "letter" with my thumb, it's eden> completely tiny (...) I've been using emacs for for than a decade and I've used nothing *but* the Esc key for all M- combinations. I was actually surprised to find out after years of use that it was possible to to M- another way. I may be remembering incorrectly, but wasn't Esc the original meta key in VT-100 days? ...cj -- ------------------------ -- Christopher J. White -- -- chris @ (---) -- grierwhite . com ------------------------