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From: | Arjan Bos |
Subject: | Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc! |
Date: | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:08:46 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 |
Eden Smallwood wrote:
Wellll, since you can press the <ESC> key and release it before you type the second key, it means that you can use any finger you like. ;-)In article <m265fkxrgx.fsf@Stella-Blue.local>, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote: € There's nothing preposterous about it. Nothing? Not even a little? The Esc key is *not* even a real modifier key, it's in the upper left hand corner, (only), so even if it were a mod key, I'd have to type the "letter" with my thumb, it's completely tiny, (on this and some kbds), and there is an unused mod key, labelled "option" & "alt" sitting there unused, in the right place, and it's nice and chunky. A "wee bit silly" then? :)
I find myself pressing the apple-key for M-<single keystroke> and <ESC> for those things that require me to press the <shift> key as well, like <ESC><shift>5 for replace (M-%) and <ESC><shift>, for (goto-char (point-min)) (M-<).
The only thing I find annoying is that in the Terminal.app, the meta key is bound to <alt>, so I have to switch typing modes slightly.
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