Re: $ collision

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something but M-<key> works fine. In this case M-d.
>
> I promise, it doesn't me.  Apparently it works for you with the particular
> set of terminal emulators that you use, but it doesn't work for me running
> ssh inside a bog-standard xterm and never has in the fifteen plus years
> that I've been using Emacs.
>
>> M not working would render emacs useless in a terminal I would have
>> thought.
>
> That's why it's always been possible in Emacs to simulate meta by pressing
> ESC and then the character.

I guess this is where I am getting confused. Esc is the meta here or I
have certainly always thought of it as that .. but that to one side for
a moment : the rest of the emacs driving keys use M so do you redefine all
those or just use Esc as the Meta? Don't misunderstand me, I'm not
objecting per-se to anything I am just trying to understand why existing
keys that people use for Mairix are remapped to add a facility key to
something already mapped. I would have thought it fairly easy for
experienced emacs users to make their own convenient mappings when using
emacs hostile shells as you obviously are. I used emacs -nw for quite a
while but reverted to X in the end because it was so much easier to use
org mode and I had better abilities to remap Function and S/Function
keys and yes, I did experience different emacs "friendliness" depending
on which term I used.

regards

r.