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Re: Binding meta and arrow


From: Ehud Karni
Subject: Re: Binding meta and arrow
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:56:35 +0300

On Mon, 16 May 2005 11:49:52 -0400, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
wrote:
>
> Although "ESC a" is equivalent to "M-a", this is not true of function keys
> like "left" where "M-left" is not the same as "ESC left".

That is true only if you don't set `meta-prefix-char' to another value.
I set it to nil and then "M-<char>" is NOT "ESC <char>" (and not a
combination of any key + <char>).

Ehud.


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