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Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:14:47 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Yes, I do, because that's what Emacs is receiving when I press
>     Meta-left, for example.  More specifically, when I type
>     Meta-left at Emacs running in xterm it receives the key sequence
>     [?\e ?\e ?O ?D], which gets translated to [?\e left] through
>     function-key-map.
>
> That is a surprise to me.  Someone must have changed this in recent
> years.

He did not say what his input terminal is.  It may not be X.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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