Re: weird key bindings...

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 30, 2017, at 4:31, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Looking into org.el shows that it binds [(meta left)] which seems to
>>> not include the GUI <M-left> key.
>> 
>> So isn't the above expected?  There are no function keys on a TTY,
>> they generate either ASCII characters or sequences of ASCII
>> characters.
> 
> The surprising thing in this particular case is that M-left behaves
> differently from ESC left. That is possible on a GUI Emacs, but the
> expectation is that Meta and ESC have the same effect.

Is there anything I can do about it ? It's confusing to use GUI emacs (on mac 
only ?) and not be able to access expected shortcuts out of the box.

Jean-Christophe