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Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!
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Konrad Hinsen |
Subject: |
Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc! |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:20:19 +0100 |
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In article <m21xq1yhcj.fsf@bluesteel.grierwhite.com>,
posts@grierwhite.com (Christopher J. White) wrote:
> I've been using emacs for for than a decade and I've used nothing
> *but* the Esc key for all M-<key> combinations. I was actually
> surprised to find out after years of use that it was possible to to
> M-<key> another way. I may be remembering incorrectly, but wasn't
> Esc the original meta key in VT-100 days?
I think DEC (the inventor of the VT-100) meant the escape key to be used
as it is in Emacs, and used it in the same way in its VMS editor.
Every now and then, I find myself facing a strange keyboard on a strange
machine, and then I am happy to be able to use ESC to work with Emacs. I
hope it won't go away. For daily use, a proper Meta key is of course
nice to have.
I have probably missed the start of this thread, but I am a bit
surprised about it. Even the non-windowing emacs that Apple ships with
MacOS X uses the option key as the meta key (they couldn't use the
command key as that is used by the terminal). Nobody *has* to use ESC on
a Mac.
Konrad (now with three Emacs installations on his iBook)
- OSX Meta bound to Esc!, zeppenwolf, 2004/01/10
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Phil Stripling, 2004/01/10
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Tim McNamara, 2004/01/10
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Eden Smallwood, 2004/01/14
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Christopher J. White, 2004/01/14
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!,
Konrad Hinsen <=
- OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Craig A . Finseth, 2004/01/15
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Tim McNamara, 2004/01/15
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Thomas F. Burdick, 2004/01/15
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Tim McNamara, 2004/01/15
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Thomas F. Burdick, 2004/01/16
- Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!, Arjan Bos, 2004/01/15