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

[David Ledger]

>From: "Benjamin L. Russell" <dekudekuplex at yahoo.com>
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>What's strange is that the "Escape" key is not
>recognized in any other Mac OS X application in Aqua
>or Darwin, either, unless I simultaneously press the
>"Shift" key, so the "Shift" + "Escape" = "Escape"
>setting seems to be global across all Mac OS X
>applications, whether Aqua or Darwinian.

Probably not a welcome idea for an emacs user, but what about vi?  vi 
is pretty basic in its use of 'esc' to terminate input mode.

In a new terminal window vi a new file, press 'a', enter some text 
and press 'esc'.  Pressing ':' should then put the cursor at the 
bottom of the screen after a ':' indicating that the 'esc' 
successfully terminated input mode.

If this doesn't work I would suspect a h/w problem.  You may have to 
close the window to quit vi if you can't get an 'esc' char into it. 
(That's why I suggested a new window).

If it does work, then 'q<return>' after the bottom line ':' will quit vi.

Apologies if you know vi and it was one of the tests you already used.

David


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