Re: Make Super key work in console

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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?

No, I'm talking about the terminal (emulators).

> Because AFAIK it was Emacs which started translating "ESC KEY" to
> Meta-KEY.

And just as for `C-x @ <foo>`, this is acceptable for Emacs where it's
more important to make sure the sequence is short, for the convenience
of the user, even if it comes at the cost of introducing some
occasional conflicts.
For terminal emulators there's no such tradeoff to make.


        Stefan