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Re: Meta-key Madness (argh!!)
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Meta-key Madness (argh!!) |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:29:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
"Howard Yeh!" <hayeah@gmail.com> writes:
> I can't figure out how to bind "C-["
>
> For some reason
>
> (global-set-key "\C-[" 'insert-parentheses)
>
> unbinds all my meta keys, and pressing "C-[" gives me the ESC key. What
> gives?
That's how things are on text terminals. On graphical terminals,
(local-set-key [C-\[] 'insert-parentheses)
could conceivably make a difference, but apparently it doesn't.
> I also has trouble binding c-i, m-i, because they are synonyms for
> <TAB>. Though I have really ugly work around for them. Is there any
> established way to deal with this sort of problems?
Accept that ESC is the same as C-[.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum