Re: Escape characters

[Henry S. Thompson]

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Since I _do_ use (x)emacs, where ^a is very useful, I prefer to go in
a different direction -- the following works well for me, as Meta-a
(backward-sentence) is not something I ever used:

   bindkey "^[a" command
   bindkey "^a" stuff b
   bindkey "^a" stuff ^a

This has the effect of 

   escape ^[aa

except that that isn't a legal/recognised invocation of the escape
option.

If anyone knows a less roundabout way of achieving the above, I'd be
happy to learn. . .

ht
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