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From: rfm%urth@Sun.COM (Richard McAllister)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Misbehavior in Jove
Summary: You can fake a meta key easy
Message-ID: <57393@sun.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 88 00:09:40 GMT
References: <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <2146@sugar.UUCP>
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Reply-To: rfm@sun.UUCP (Richard McAllister)
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In article <2146@sugar.UUCP>, Peter da Silva asks:
>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. 

Good idea, but until that happens a keyboard macro program (like Superkey or
Prokey on PCs, there must be equivalents for Amigas) can remap alt-x to
ESC-x and give the same effect.  It even works when dialing into a host.
Rich McAllister (rfm@sun.com)