Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ALT as Meta-key in microemacs - DONT!!!!!!! Summary: Why, you can use *any* key as the alt key. So what' sthe big deal? Message-ID: <2159@sugar.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 04:21:26 GMT References: <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <2146@sugar.UUCP> <6684@cup.portal.com> <4360@csli.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 26 In article ... kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye) writes: > Peter da Silva complains: > >Why don't any of the Micro emacses implement REAL meta keys? Both the IBM-PC > >and the Amiga have these nice ALT keys in a real convenient spot, just ready > >for use as a metakey. Do the implementors really prefer hitting ESC, or have > >they just forgotten that ESC is just a kludge? > If you make any program of any sort, and especialy an editor, I beg that > you do not redefine the ALT Key. The ALT key accesses the foreign characters, > and I like editors that allows me to write my own name!!!. Good point. Would you mind using the Right-Amiga key as the Meta key, then? OOPS, that blows out the menu shortcuts. How about the Left-Amiga key, then? Or the help key? Or any other key? i.e.: Make it user-configurable. > IF there is no way around redefine the function of the ALT key - do NOT at > the same time fix the keymap used!!!. I don't think that was the idea, though... -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva. -- U Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null. -- "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds".