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Re: vterm and Meta?
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Spencer Baugh |
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Re: vterm and Meta? |
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Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:05:14 -0400 |
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hw <hw@adminart.net> writes:
> On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 14:12 +0200, Thibaut Verron wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are you using emacs in a terminal?
>
> sometimes
>
>> If not, Meta is usually bound to a modifier key (afaik by default the
>> one immediately left of the space bar, e.g. alt on PC keyboards), and
>> that works in vterm.
>
> Uhm, I've been using emacs for over 30 years and in all these years,
> the ESC key was always used for a meta key across all instances by
> default. It's the same when running emacs in a terminal, as an X11
> client or with wayland.
>
> The key left of the space bar has always been the Alt key on all PC
> keyboards I've used so far. Pressing, for example, Alt-x, inserts x
> into the buffer (like into this buffer I'm writing this reply in, and
> into the vterm buffer).
>
> How is it that it's different for you?
>
>> If you don't usually run programs using the Esc key in vterm, you can
>> unbind it and send it with vterm-send-next-key when necessary.
>
> Hm, true, I can try that. It's not like I need the ESC key too often
> in a terminal. Somehow I didn't think of that, thank you :)
>
> But then, maybe it makes sense to reconfigure things to use the Alt
> key instead of ESC? Apparently Alt doesn't do anything now and may be
> less awkward to type. Hmm ...
It's possible to separate these in graphical frames. I think you could
(define-key local-function-key-map (kbd "<escape>") nil)
to make <escape> no longer map to ESC. Then you can remove the ESC
binding in vterm and add an <escape> binding. Then Meta bindings and
<escape> will be separate.
(I know this because I figured it out for some evil-mode users and wrote
it up here: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil/issues/1780 )
- vterm and Meta?, hw, 2023/08/01
- Re: vterm and Meta?, Thibaut Verron, 2023/08/01
- Re: vterm and Meta?, Thibaut Verron, 2023/08/01
- Re: vterm and Meta?, hw, 2023/08/01
- Re: vterm and Meta?, Thibaut Verron, 2023/08/01
- Re: vterm and Meta?, hw, 2023/08/01
- Re: vterm and Meta?, Thibaut Verron, 2023/08/02
- Re: vterm and Meta?, hw, 2023/08/02
- Re: vterm and Meta?, hw, 2023/08/02
- Re: vterm and Meta?, Yuri Khan, 2023/08/02