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

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <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.
>
> He said it's an xterm.

Which is not X.  So Emacs never gets to see Meta.

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