Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!urth!rfm 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> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: rfm@sun.UUCP (Richard McAllister) Lines: 9 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)