[X-Unix] How to use ESC as Meta in Enhanced Carbon Emacs?

[William H. Magill]

On 19 Sep, 2004, at 03:59, Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
> In the /Applications/Utilities/Keycaps application,
> when I press the "Escape" key by itself, usually
> nothing happens (I write "usually" because if I hold
> "Escape" for a few seconds, then Keycaps registers the
> key-press, and if I then press "Escape" quickly
> immediately afterwards, sometimes this key-press also
> registers).

This sounds more and more like a hardware problem -- a bad keyboard.

It is not unheard of for single keys to "die."

Modern keyboards tend to be more robust than those of yore, but I've 
still had them fail.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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