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From: Peter Lee <pete_lee/remove-for-email/@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: M-[
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:40:32 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1y0euul7.fsf@swbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a%oja.27$cO1.1882@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net

Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> writes:

> In article <b6l2k3$t5l$1@news-int.gatech.edu>,
> greg jednaszewski  <greg@attenuated.org> wrote:
> >I use swbuff.el for cycling through buffers, and I'd like to be able to
> >bind M-[ to swbuff-switch-to-previous-buffer like so:
> >
> >(global-set-key (kbd "M-[") 'swbuff-switch-to-previous-buffer)
> >
> >However, I can't seem to be able to bind anything to simply M-[.  When I
> >do describe-key on M-[, it expects another keypress, in the same way
> >that C-x expects another keypress.
> >
> >What is the reasoning behind this, and is there any way around it?
> 
> On most ASCII terminals, special function keys (like arrow keys) send
> sequences that begin with ESC [.

I have the following in my .emacs:

(global-set-key "\M-[" 'curly-brace-region)

It's always worked fine for me.  Perhaps it is an OS issue.  I'm on
XP.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-07 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04 22:57 M-[ greg jednaszewski
2003-04-04 23:59 ` M-[ Barry Margolin
2003-04-07 17:40   ` Peter Lee [this message]
2003-04-07 18:14   ` M-[ Kevin Rodgers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-24  7:57 M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-24  9:37 ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-24 10:13   ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-24 10:28     ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-27  4:05 ` M-= Chong Yidong
2012-07-27 10:59   ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 14:57     ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-27 16:24       ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 17:32         ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-29  3:33     ` M-= Chong Yidong
2012-07-27 17:30   ` M-= James Cloos
2012-07-27 19:02     ` M-= Andreas Röhler
2012-07-24  9:03 M-= Dmitry Gutov
2012-07-24  9:24 ` M-= Ulrich Mueller

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