Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!think!barmar From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: function-keymap: criticism Message-ID: <20579@think.UUCP> Date: 8 May 88 05:08:59 GMT References: <8805071503.AA06117@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Sender: usenet@think.UUCP Reply-To: barmar@fafnir.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 In article <8805071503.AA06117@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> "SDRRTR::SDRRTR::MRGATE::\"MRGATE::PSI%SCRVX2::BLUE::IN%\"davis@blue.sdr.slb.COM\"\""@sdr.slb.COM writes: > 5) Why, oh why, is M-[ bound to backward-paragraph. How many > keyboards with function keys are there that *do not* use this > as an escape sequence ? Especially given the ANSI standard for > cursor arrows...... M-[ has been the Emacs backward-paragraph command for as long as there has been Emacs. I think Emacs is older than the ANSI standard you cite. I believe Emacs was developed at MIT around 1976. Its command set is basically a conglomeration of the various popular TECO macro sets that were in use at the time, so I suspect that M-[ was in use even earlier. Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com uunet!think!barmar