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From: kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ALT as Meta-key in microemacs - DONT!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <4360@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 21 Jun 88 15:18:21 GMT
References: <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <2146@sugar.UUCP> <6684@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: kasper@csli.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <6684@cup.portal.com> Skywalker@cup.portal.com 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?
|
|I have mg2a set up on my 1000 with the alt keys working (apparently completely)
|as true meta keys. It requires 2 non-standard setups:
|  1) compile using the "-dUSE_METAKEY" option; and
|  2) you must use one of the alternate keymaps (usa0 for the 1000) that
|     has the ALT key setting the high-order bit (just like v1.1 of AmigaDog).
|     The default keymap has ALT mapping to a foreign alphabet with "dead" keys
|     and all that other annoying stuff.
|
|	hope this helps.
|			scott
|
|P.S. The default key map change was the first "bug" in v1.2 (ie: it was NOT
|     better than v1.1).
|(no .signature yet)

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!!!. 

IF there is no way around redefine the function of the ALT key - do NOT at
the same time fix the keymap used!!!.

--Kasper Osterbye
(There should have been a "/" through the "O", but....)