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Re: mapping ESC versus META
From: |
Ehud Karni |
Subject: |
Re: mapping ESC versus META |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:01:06 +0200 |
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:24:20 GMT, cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
wrote:
>
> I run several different versions of Emacs,
> and sometimes there is an actual key to be META.
> Is there a way I can bind a command to that key
> chord combination, but bind a different command
> to the ESC sequence? In other words, when I
> hold down the META shift key and press letter "Z",
> I would get one command, but when I type "ESC Z"
> I would get a different command.
Sure you can. Just add the following line to your .emacs:
(setq meta-prefix-char nil)
> On the Macintosh, the META key might be either
> the Command or the Option key. As it happens,
> I always have it set to be the Command key.
> I want this to work under X11 on the Mac, and Linux.
> It would be best if it also worked for MS Windows.
I don't know about Mac, but the above works well for X11 Emacs
on Linux and M$Windows (under Cygwin) and NTEmacs IIRC.
Ehud.
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