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Re:Emacs, naked by __david__ on Thursday January 23, 2014 @01:12PM (#7109907)
You don't get as many color choices and you don't get as many key bindings.

"C-M-%" is pretty much impossible in the terminal. You have to do "M-x query-replace-regexp", or make some other custom binding.

Re:Emacs, naked by claudius on Thursday January 23, 2014 @02:24PM (#7110505)
You can hit Esc before the combination to fill in for M and then it is just C-S-5 for me, which is certainly doable?
Re:Emacs, naked by breadbox on Thursday January 23, 2014 @02:49PM (#7110682)
In some (most, I thought, but maybe I'm wrong) terminals, you can only use the control key to generate an actual control character -- i.e. one of ASCII 0-31. The ctrl key basically unsets bit 64 from the typed key, so ctrl-A through ctrl-Z generate ASCII 1-26, ctrl-@ generates ASCII 0 (though traditionally ctrl-spc gives this as well), and ctrl with [ \ ] ^ _ generate the remaining ASCII 27-31. Ctrl-? sometimes generates ASCII 127 (pretending that ctrl actually subtracts 64 instead of unsetting the bit), but otherwise there are no remaining ASCII values left for such extensions as ctrl-%.
Re:Emacs, naked by __david__ on Thursday January 23, 2014 @11:18PM (#7113318)
No, you're right. As far as I know, standard vt100/ANSI terminals do not have any special escape sequences for control key combinations that don't map directly into ASCII.