Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!shelby!neon!neon!gumby From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: C-X ESC- equals C-X ESC ?? Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 90 05:36:42 GMT References: <15294@csli.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Followup-To: comp.emacs Organization: Cygnus Support Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: lakin@csli.Stanford.EDU's message of 12 Sep 90 18:47:38 GMT Date: 12 Sep 90 18:47:38 GMT From: lakin@csli.Stanford.EDU (Fred Lakin) having defined foo, i tried to bind it to C-X C-M-L: (global-set-key "\C-x\C-[\C-l" 'foo) and found i had rebound C-X ESC ... and in fact it seems like the in "\C-x\C-[" made no difference. what don;t i understand here? Sorry Fred, what you don't understand is that unlike real emacs, GNU emacs uses seven-bit ASCII. Meta-foo is converted to escape foo internally! Apparently this may have to change back to make a bunch of things work right in Emacs 19, but may not get done because of the amount of work involved. Face it, Fred: I have seen the future and it is Unix. And they call this a kinder, gentler age!