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Re: M-[


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: M-[
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 23:59:02 GMT

In article <b6l2k3$t5l$1@news-int.gatech.edu>,
greg jednaszewski  <greg@attenuated.org> wrote:
>I use swbuff.el for cycling through buffers, and I'd like to be able to
>bind M-[ to swbuff-switch-to-previous-buffer like so:
>
>(global-set-key (kbd "M-[") 'swbuff-switch-to-previous-buffer)
>
>However, I can't seem to be able to bind anything to simply M-[.  When I
>do describe-key on M-[, it expects another keypress, in the same way
>that C-x expects another keypress.
>
>What is the reasoning behind this, and is there any way around it?

On most ASCII terminals, special function keys (like arrow keys) send
sequences that begin with ESC [.

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