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- From: kubipdal@uts.uni-c.dk (Peter Dalg}rd)
- Subject: Re: IMPOSSIBLE hacks? or just very hard to do?
- Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:55:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.205511.9962@uts.uni-c.dk>
- References: <KPC.93Jan9095536@zog.arc.nasa.gov> <DSG.93Jan11105310@blackbird.mitre.org>
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- In <DSG.93Jan11105310@blackbird.mitre.org> dsg@blackbird.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:
-
- >Maybe that's OK in your environment, but maybe it's not. The ESC for
- >Meta hack is great because alot of terminals don't have a Meta key and
- >so it's convenient to sort of equate an ESC prefix with the Meta key.
- >But they aren't exactly the same - if you build epoch with the
- >EIGHTBIT_KEYBOARD defined, you lose key definitions defined as "M-",
- >but using "\e" as a prefix works fine. I don't know (and have no way
- >of checking) if that is only an epoch issue, though.
-
- Curious coincidence. Earlier today I had to do a replace-string of \M-
- to \e in some contributed .el files. The reason was that I had
- meta-prefix-char set to C-] so that I could remap e.g. oslash (M-x) to
- meta-self-insert-char without touching ESC x (this is part of a local
- hack of latin1-mode, but I hope you get the idea), so now M-x means "oslash
- or C-] x", which I definitely don't want. I think that for this kind of
- reason, it is preferable to use the \e notation. Most but not all files
- in $EMACSHOME/lisp do that (gdb.el doesn't, e.g.), so one might get the
- idea that someone else has thought the same before.
-
- Peter Dalgaard
-