Re: Make Super key work in console

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:14:06 -0500
> 
> >> 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).

Then I don't understand how this could be possible.

> > 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.

They wanted to support Emacs and software that adopted the Emacs
keybindings (such as Readline, Bash, etc.).