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From: mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mg2a escape chars?
Summary: M-x meta-key-mode toggles interpretation of 8th bit as META key
Keywords: mg2a escape
Message-ID: <17003@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 89 23:32:34 GMT
References: <608@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Reply-To: mic@emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, User Services Unix Support Group
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In article <608@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> wdimm@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (William Dimm) writes:
>							 There is 
>a symbol which you #define when compiling mg2a which causes the
>ALT key to be interpreted as an ESC (actually 'meta').  You may
>be able to use the full character set if you recompile without this
>#define - I don't know (I had trouble compiling it with Lattice 5.02
>so I didn't test this).

The name of the preprocessor definition is DO_METAKEY.  If defined, MG
2a interprets ALT'ed keys as META keys, otherwise the characters you
type are put into the buffer as-is. 

However, there is also a function (meta-key-mode) that lets you do
this without recompiling the program.  If you put the line
	(meta-key-mode)

in S:.mg, MG 2a should put the characters you type into the buffer
unchanged. At least it did this when I wrote and tested the code more
than a year and half ago. :-)

Mic Kaczmarczik (a lapsed MG 2a developer)
UT Austin Computation Center
mic@emx.utexas.edu

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