Re: meta key problem C-M-\

[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Stefan Monnier 
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>], who wrote in article 
<8764rmapgz.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>:
> > A decade ago I wrote "a universal solver" for such problems:
> > modifier.el.  A (possibly severely crippled) version is included in
> > Emacs.  In short, you can replace control- by using some prefix key.
> > I usually bind C-F12 to be a replacement for control- prefix (likewise
> > for other modifiers).

> I can't find your modifier.el

Actually, right now I repopulated ilyaz.org/software/emacs.  It should
be in "el" archive 2005-09.

> but maybe it's been renamed/integrated and
> has turned into the C-x @ thingy: C-x @ c is a prefix which adds a control
> modifier to the next key.

Right.  RMS rewrote it some way; since I did not use his version, I
did not know for a year or more that his version was severely broken
(e.g., it did not work with terminal keyboard sequences like F1).  It
was discussed here on g.e.h...  Maybe it works better now,
checking...  No, it is still borken with 21.2...

Hope this helps,
Ilya