From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs Language Sensitive Editing
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 15:04:10 GMT
Date: 2001-11-01T15:04:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <KvdE7.8680$xS6.11338@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uofmnweh9.fsf@ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com
In article <uofmnweh9.fsf@ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com>, David Bolen says...
>But that doesn't mean you need a dedicated key, since any Meta-xx
>sequence can be typed as two keystrokes with ESC - serving as a
>virtual Meta-shift - and xx, and except maybe for some IBM terminals,
.
>In fact, I've never gotten in the habit of actually using whatever key
>on a system serves as the Meta key (at least in terms of using it as a
>shift-like key like Ctrl), probably because the earliest systems I
>used Emacs on didn't have one. So instead I just always use ESC first
>for such commands, and that's proven portable with no relearning (or
>retraining fingers) on every system I've used over the past 15+ years.
Same here. As far as I'm concerned, "Meta" = ESC (press and release). Its been a
damn long time since I used a Sun keyboard.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-29 17:48 Emacs Language Sensitive Editing Stephen Leake
2001-10-31 8:50 ` Peter Hermann
2001-10-31 9:41 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-10-31 10:10 ` Aidan Skinner
2001-10-31 19:00 ` Stephen Leake
2001-10-31 23:56 ` David Bolen
2001-11-01 11:58 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-02 0:50 ` David Bolen
2001-11-01 15:04 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-11-02 0:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-02 0:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
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