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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by diet_mtn_dew on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:12AM (#21524978)
As the meta key, i.e., hitting ESC then x for M-x.
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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by jefftk on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:22AM (#21525097)
On a Mac I use "option" for this; much shorter reach
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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by pantulis on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:47AM (#21525401)
It's funny but I've been using Emacs for almost 25 years and still use ESC instead of ALT/OPTION, guess that's muscle memory from using Emacs via telnet sessions.
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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by jlokier on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:46PM (#21527061)
Alt+Key doesn't save any keystrokes over Esc+Key anyway, and I think the Esc version is easier to type.

Especially things like Esc : (which is Esc then Shift-;) is surely easier to type than Alt-Shift-;.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by fortran77 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:40PM (#21526977)
That's my experience, too, I guess it's from learning EMACS and its ancestors on actual VT-100 style terminals with no meta keys.
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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by mitchty on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:37AM (#21525282)
Indeed, never even crossed my mind to set the escape key to meta, definitely not a default even for Cocoa emacs.
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