Subject: bug#18182: 24.3.92; C-[ does not work as ESC in viper-mode

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:21:33 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> IIRC this had to do with the code that distinguishes "ESC the key" from
> "ESC the prefix in escape sequences" on ttys.  The patch basically
> changes input-decode-map to turn ESC into `escape` if there's no other
> input after a short timeout.
>
> But maybe we can keep using `ESC`, by relying on the function-key-map to
> map `escape` back to `ESC`.

OK; I've now done this on the trunk, and I guess we'll find out whether
that leads to any problems...

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