Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Skywalker From: Skywalker@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ALT as Meta-key in microemacs (was: re: jove problem) Message-ID: <6684@cup.portal.com> Date: 20 Jun 88 04:15:53 GMT References: <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <2146@sugar.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 21 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3640 Peter da Silva complains: PdS>Why don't any of the Micro emacses implement REAL meta keys? Both the IBM-PC PdS>and the Amiga have these nice ALT keys in a real convenient spot, just ready PdS>for use as a metakey. Do the implementors really prefer hitting ESC, or have PdS>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)