can't rebind-key M-key1 to plain C-key2, get ESC C-key2 instead

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From: Jerry
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1992 02:01

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The following causes, e.g., M-F1 to generate ESC C-a instead of C-a:

(rebind-key "F1" 'meta "\C-a")

as you can see by C-h c M-F1.  This has been a problem for as far back
as Epoch 3.2 (am using 4.2 currently).

-Jerry

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