Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- Subject: Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- From: Vincent Lefevre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:55:14 +0100
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On 2007-11-24 16:16:51 -0500, Peter Eddy wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2007 3:20 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> > + "Peter Eddy" <email@hidden>:
> > > On Linux emacs usually does use alt for meta.
> >
> > By that, do you mean (a) emacs uses the modifier key that is either
> > Alt_L or Alt_R according to X11 (and as reported by xev) as meta, or
> > (b) that when you press the key marked Alt on the keyboard, emacs sees
> > it as meta?
>
> Yep, (b) is what I meant
AFAIK, Emacs uses the mod1 key ("xmodmap -pme" gives you the modifier
settings).
> I normally run remote emacs in terminal mode,
When Emacs is run in terminal mode, this is different: the terminal
decides what is Meta. Unfortunately that is no standard way for a
terminal to say that Meta (or another modifier) is used (without
taking into account xterm's modifyOtherKeys). Some people choose to
use the 8th bit for that, but of course, this can only work with the
ASCII character set. Another solution is to ask the terminal to send
the ESC character first, and as with Emacs, Meta and ESC do the same
thing, this isn't a problem in practice.
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