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From: mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacX meta key stuck
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Date: 6 May 91 22:19:41 GMT
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MacX users:

Twice now I have had the experience of MacX thinking that the Meta key was held
down.  The problem was detected in an emacs session, though other windows
thought the same thing.  The Keycaps did not show any keys down.

The first time that happened, I could not think of any way to save my emacs
buffers, so w/ a prayer to auto-save I killed the session and restarted MacX,
at which point it was back to normal.

This time I tried more random stuff.  When I held down the left arrow key and
clicked the mouse (=middle button), it pasted in something from the Mac
clipboard, and then all was normal again. (!!)

I would love to hear if anyone else has experienced this problem.  Or perhaps
this is a "feature"?  (I did not know how to paste from the clipboard before.)

-Tom (mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu)