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From: mrose@stsci.EDU (Mike Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: meta-key for terminal emulators
Message-ID: <2459@stsci.EDU>
Date: 9 Apr 91 19:18:41 GMT
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD
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Does anyone know of a terminal emulator that supports a "meta" key.
Meta behaves like control or shift, and when held down it sets the
high bit of the character.

VersaTerm Pro has something like this, but the characters it generates
have nothing to do with the key labels, and they cannot be changed.
It also doesn't allow control-meta characters.

An alternative to a terminal emulator would be a package that allowed
me to specify binary values for specific key chords, preferably on a
per-program basis.  Are there programs that do this available?

Thanks,

Mike
mrose@stsci.edu