Xref: utzoo comp.terminals:806 comp.emacs:3845 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!noao!amethyst!rsm From: rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (Robert Maier) Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.emacs Subject: Recommendations for terminal with Meta key? Message-ID: <784@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> Date: 14 Jul 88 07:54:17 GMT Sender: news@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu Organization: Dept. of Math., Univ. of Arizona; Tucson, AZ 85721 Lines: 24 I plan on buying a new terminal for personal use. Since I use Emacs a good bit, a Meta key is high on my list of requirements. An escape key, even a reasonably placed one, is a poor substitute. Grepping for the `km' attribute (i.e., Meta key) in the Berkeley termcap file turns up only the following: Mu|sun|Sun Microsystems Workstation console: SD|supdup|SUPDUP virtual terminal: MX|dmchat|dmchat version of datamedia 2500: hz|2392|hp2392|hp2392a: y7|t10|teleray 10 special: Are the last three really the only choices I have? Does anyone have any other recommendations? To be effective a Meta key should be as close to the Shift key as the Control key is. Switching from Control-v to Meta-v should be painless... ====================================================================== Robert S. Maier | Internet: rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu Dept. of Math. | UUCP: ..{allegra,cmcl2,hao!noao}!arizona!amethyst!rsm Univ. of Arizona | Bitnet: maier@arizrvax Tucson, AZ 85721 | Phone: +1 602 621 6893 / +1 602 621 2617