Re: rebinding ESC key

[Kevin Rodgers]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 06.11.2007 um 09:48 schrieb Mike Mattie:
>
> > How do I map the ESC key without altering M- bindings ?
>
> Using C-ESC? Is there no other key available like PtSc, ScLk, SysRq, 
> Brk, ...?
>
> The Esc and the Meta keys are somehow related to each-other. If a 
> keyboard has no functioning Meta key, then pressing Esc and then key 
> that would have been pressed together with the Meta key result to the 
> same event in GNU Emacs.

You might try setting meta-prefix-char to a character other than ESC,
perhaps a character you can't even type on your keyboard.  Then bind
that character to the ESC-prefix symbol.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA