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Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!


From: Christopher J. White
Subject: Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:18:52 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin)

timmcn>  There's nothing preposterous about it.

eden>     Nothing?  Not even a little?  The Esc key is *not* even a real
eden> modifier key, it's in the upper left hand corner, (only), so even if
eden> it were a mod key, I'd have to type the "letter" with my thumb, it's
eden> completely tiny (...)

I've been using emacs for for than a decade and I've used nothing
*but* the Esc key for all M-<key> combinations.  I was actually
surprised to find out after years of use that it was possible to to
M-<key> another way.  I may be remembering incorrectly, but wasn't
Esc the original meta key in VT-100 days?

...cj

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