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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ALT as Meta-key in microemacs - DONT!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <8806212104.AA01045@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 21 Jun 88 21:04:53 GMT
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: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!!!.

	I've been (listening?) to this discussion and can only take delight
in the fact that my creation, DME, does exactly the right thing!  It uses
DeadKeyConvert() for unmapped keys, qualifier+key codes for mapped keys.

	So one has physical dependancies for mapped keys, standard keymap
for unmapped keys (thus fully supports foreign keymaps).

					-Matt