Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!csli!kasper 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. Lines: 32 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....)