<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I don't think there are any keys (outside of the small list of control keys such as backspace, arrow-X and maybe one or two others that escape me right now) that should have any meta effect on their own. If I type a { then it should obey the standard rules - which really haven't needed any notable change since Larry Tesler came up with them circa 1978 (?) - of replacing the selection. cmd=[ can do whatever is needed since it is a command.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you really want to mess around with this kind of thing I'd suggest making a proper config tool that let's you configure every available key and meta combination, with saveable mappings attached to the prefs so you can have whatever you personally want.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BBEdit has one such tool - <br class=""><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="CFE4C8D5-8FA3-41CA-AF1D-456AF6637DCB" src="cid:66506E12-4611-4AFE-8A67-6BEDC85DF6E9" class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">tim<br class="">--<br class="">tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" class="">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" class="">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br class="">Mommy! The cursor's winking at me!<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>