Mercurial > emacs
changeset 48530:4ccb542f41ef
Explain how ESC is different from META.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:05:45 +0000 |
| parents | ea972f5474c9 |
| children | 962cd8bcdb21 |
| files | man/commands.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/commands.texi Sun Nov 24 19:05:06 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/commands.texi Sun Nov 24 19:05:45 2002 +0000 @@ -76,10 +76,14 @@ it. If there is no @key{META} key, you can still type Meta characters -using two-character sequences starting with @key{ESC}. Thus, you can enter -@kbd{M-a} by typing @kbd{@key{ESC} a}. You can enter @kbd{C-M-a} by -typing @kbd{@key{ESC} C-a}. @key{ESC} is allowed on terminals with -@key{META} keys, too, in case you have formed a habit of using it. +using two-character sequences starting with @key{ESC}. Thus, you can +enter @kbd{M-a} by typing @kbd{@key{ESC} a}. You can enter +@kbd{C-M-a} by typing @kbd{@key{ESC} C-a}. Unlike @key{META}, which +modifies other characters, @key{ESC} is a separate character. You +don't hold down @key{ESC} while typing the next character; instead, +you press it and release it, then you enter the next character. +@key{ESC} is allowed on terminals with @key{META} keys, too, in case +you have formed a habit of using it. The X Window System provides several other modifier keys that can be applied to any input character. These are called @key{SUPER},