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Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:57:34 +0200 |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> So Iʼve (finally) got an actual Meta key configured on my
>> keyboard. Iʼve always believed that Esc-as-prefix and Meta were
>> interchangable, but that doesnʼt seem to be the case:
>
> The ESC <-> Meta equivalence only holds for characters, not for
> "special keys" such as `left`, indeed. Not sure why.
OK.
>> So this looks like Emacs is not taking into account the SHIFT modifier
>> here?
>
> What makes you think so? The "translated from" clearly shows that Emacs
> saw the shift just fine.
You're right, I misinterpreted the results. It looks like emacs
ignores the shift if thereʼs no separate binding for the shifted
version, and runs whatever's bound to the unshifted version.
>> Or is there some default keyboard translation going on that I
>> need to disable?
>
> Why would you need to disable it?
> IOW which part of "running left-word when I hit M-S-<left>" annoys you?
This came up when running org, inside a table, where M-S-<left> and
M-<left> do different things, and neither are the same as
ESC-S-<left>. If the Esc <-> Meta were true here they would be easier
for me to type, although I can always rebind the ESC versions (or
retrain my fingers)
Robert
- ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Robert Pluim, 2018/04/10
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/10
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Bob Proulx, 2018/04/10
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/11
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Bob Proulx, 2018/04/11
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/11
- RE: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Drew Adams, 2018/04/11
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Robert Pluim, 2018/04/12
- RE: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Drew Adams, 2018/04/12
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Robert Pluim, 2018/04/12
- RE: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Drew Adams, 2018/04/12
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Robert Pluim, 2018/04/12