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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
Message-ID: <1347@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 00:10:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.1347
Posted: Fri Oct  9 00:10:05 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 12:12:19 EDT
References: <8710082121.AA02323@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <8710082121.AA02323@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA> rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>What I did [on a terminal with a hard-to-reach ESC key] was:
>
>(global-set-key "`" 'ESC-prefix)
>(global-set-key "\e`" 'self-insert-command)
>
>Note that there is no command bound to M-`. Typed twice, it self inserts.

This also doesn't solve the problem of ESC as a secondary character: C-x ESC
and  M-ESC  still require the real ESC key in your model.

I had a similar problem on a certain braindamaged terminal that I probably
shouldn't mention by name because it bears our company's logo.  The ESC key is
hidden below the RETURN key!  (Its predecessor, the INtext I, had the same
problem.)  I hacked something using unread-command-char to make "\eE\r" (sent
by the key in the position where ESC belongs) look like ESC, and grudgingly
rebound repeat-complex-command to "\C-x\eE\r" and eval-expression to
"\e\eE\r", but kept getting bitten by things like the argument to C-h c.

I decided that the solution had to be at a lower level, and considered
redefining the read-char function.  But before I had a chance to try this, I
got myself a better terminal.

(All this was before I knew about keyboard-translate-table, and that wouldn't
have let me remap multi-character keys anyway.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint