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From: rkz@scrc.symbolics.COM (Randolph K. Zeitvogel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: trouble with R4 xterm
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Date: 19 Apr 91 14:47:49 GMT
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   Date: 19 Apr 91 00:16:52 GMT
   From: breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck)
   Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
   Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
   Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu

   I was quite happy with the R3 xterm.  It had two helpful menus with a
   bunch of options and passed meta sequences to emacs.  Now I have to
   use the R4 xterm which has two unhelpful menus (which I can barely
   see) and meta-s just dumps an "s" into emacs.  I have read the f***ing
   lousy manual, and tried a couple of overrides, making sure
   EightBitInput is set, etc.  No luck.  I have looked at the faq list I
   picked up here a while back.  No luck.  Help!

   RSVP via email, will summarize.

   If you can't take the time to mail me a long note to straighten me
   out, perhaps you could drop me the name of an xterm wizard, or the
   site of some ftp-able document for confused folks like me...
   -- 
   Liam Breck     breck@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu

If running emacs is the reason that you are using an xterm, you should try
epoch. I pasted in the first paragraph of the announcement.

Version 3.2 of Epoch, GNU Emacs for the X windowing system has been formally
released.  It is available by anonymous ftp from cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1)
in the directory pub/epoch-files/epoch either as a full distribution or as 
patches from either the Epoch 3.1 or Epoch 3.2 Beta distributions.  There is 
also an epoch mailing list.   To join the list or get more information about 
obtaining epoch, email epoch-request@cs.uiuc.edu, uunet!uiucdcs!epoch-request
or (as a last resort) epoch-request%cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet.

Randy Zeitvgel
Symbolics MACSYMA division
Internet: rkz@tyranosaurus.scrc.symbolics.com