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Re: Alt-left-arrow is defined but ESC left-arrow is not
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Alt-left-arrow is defined but ESC left-arrow is not |
Date: |
21 Sep 2001 10:46:06 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.106 |
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com> writes:
> No fair, Alt-left-arrow is defined but ESC left-arrow is not.
> I thought us, um, mature users who are used to ESC would not be
> short changed in the default bindings department. Where the docs say
> M-, my brain can replace it with ESC-, always. No?
Sadly, this is not true. The equivalence between Meta and ESC is only
true for "ASCII bindings" but not for function keys.
This is a bug, but it won't be fixed in 21.1.
Stefan