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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: VersaTerm
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 12:22:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 12:22:25 1985
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Something I would dearly love to see in a terminal emulator, and which
none of them have yet (are you listening Lonnie?) is a "Meta" key.  This
(for you unitiated out there) is a key which sets the "parity" or 8th
bit in the outgoing characters (obviously, one must be running in a "no
parity" mode).  A certain popular screen editor (emacs) uses this key as
a sort of "control" key to give one easy access to a number of editing
functions.  I know that availability of a meta key would prompt a large
number of people to buy the terminal emulator that supplied it.

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