Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc!

[Arjan Bos]

Eden Smallwood wrote:

> In article <m265fkxrgx.fsf@Stella-Blue.local>, Tim McNamara
> <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>
> € There's nothing preposterous about it.
>
>     Nothing?  Not even a little?  The Esc key is *not* even a real
> modifier key, it's in the upper left hand corner, (only), so even if
> it were a mod key, I'd have to type the "letter" with my thumb, it's
> completely tiny, (on this and some kbds), and there is an unused mod
> key, labelled "option" & "alt" sitting there unused, in the right
> place, and it's nice and chunky.
>
>     A "wee bit silly" then? :)
Wellll, since you can press the <ESC> key and release it before you type 
the second key, it means that you can use any finger you like. ;-)

I find myself pressing the apple-key for M-<single keystroke> and <ESC> 
for those things that require me to press the <shift> key as well, like 
<ESC><shift>5 for replace (M-%) and <ESC><shift>, for (goto-char 
(point-min)) (M-<).

The only thing I find annoying is that in the Terminal.app, the meta key 
is bound to <alt>, so I have to switch typing modes slightly.

Arjan

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