Re: Segfault after bad value for meta-prefix-char

[Andreas Schwab]

Peter Heslin <address@hidden> writes:

> Ah.  Thanks, that works.  I had tried this:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "<ESC>")   'keyboard-escape-quit)
>
> but that seems to disable the Meta key, which is why I started mucking
> around with meta-prefix-char.  Is it expected behavior that binding
> [escape] works while binding (kbd "<ESC>") doesn't?

Normally, [escape] is translated to "\e" via function-key-map, and the
latter is used for looking up meta keys (except function keys), thus if
you rebind "\e" they won't work any more.  Binding [escape] overrides the
entry in function-key-map, but "\e" still goes through the normal lookup,
thus it wouldn't change anything for a tty frame.

Andreas.

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