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Re: Alt-left-arrow is defined but ESC left-arrow is not
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: Alt-left-arrow is defined but ESC left-arrow is not |
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Date: |
23 Sep 2001 17:29:09 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
>>>>> writes:
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com> writes:
>> No fair, Alt-left-arrow is defined but ESC left-arrow is not.
>> I thought us, um, mature users who are used to ESC would not be
>> short changed in the default bindings department. Where the docs say
>> M-, my brain can replace it with ESC-, always. No?
Stefan> Sadly, this is not true. The equivalence between Meta and ESC is only
Stefan> true for "ASCII bindings" but not for function keys.
Stefan> This is a bug, but it won't be fixed in 21.1.
Can't they just bind them up anyway in the new default, just for
fun... I mean if 99% of M- also equals ESC- to the user, then one
might as well go for 100%, at least it is more useful than "key
undefined".
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