Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!mic 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 Lines: 29 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 -- Mic Kaczmarczik If you drink, don't drill. UT Austin Computation Center -- Matt Groening mic@emx.utexas.edu MIC@UTAIVC.BITNET