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From: josh@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Joshua Marantz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: IBM RT/AIX GNU Emacs 18.52
Message-ID: <4765@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 Sep 88 14:23:16 GMT
Organization: MIT LCS, Cambridge, MA
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Does anyone have code to make the alt key on the IBM RT work with Gnu
Emacs under AIX?  I have (setq meta-flag t), but when you press (for example)
Alt-a, Emacs receives ESC [087q.  The number 087 corresponds to some sort
of scancode, because it increments when pressing ALT-a, ALT-s, ALT-d, and
so on.  Another potentential point of frustration is that ALT-< and ALT-,
generate the same sequence.

I'm sure running X solves this, but we don't have it yet, and we desire Emacs
functionality outside the X environment, if at all possible.

I'm sure someone must have already written Elisp that covers most of the alt
keys.

Thanks in advance,
-Josh