Re: Make Super key work in console

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:13:33 -0500
> 
> > I don't think I understand.  Given the APIs used by text-mode programs
> > to read keyboard input, what are the alternatives for those "yucky"
> > methods?
> 
> Using escape sequences that start with ESC (and which hence collide
> with actual uses of the ESC key) was arguably unavoidable, indeed.
> 
> But using "just ESC" as "the escape sequence for meta" leads to more conflicts
> since it doesn't just conflict with the use of the ESC key but also with
> ESC used for escape sequences.
> 
> They should have used "ESC <something>" for the meta key so you don't
> get conflicts like `M-O` conflicting with escape sequences that start
> with `ESC O`.

By "they" you mean Emacs?  Because AFAIK it was Emacs which started
translating "ESC KEY" to Meta-KEY.