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From: walters@io.UUCP (Tim Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Using Wyse-60 'No Scroll' key as meta key
Message-ID: <400@io.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 02:01:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: io.400
Posted: Wed Oct  7 02:01:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 06:33:50 EDT
Reply-To: walters@wally.UUCP (Tim Walters)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
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We have a few Wyse-60 terminals which we are using with Gnu emacs
18.41. These terminals have a 'No Scroll' key which can be set up to
work as a kind of meta key: holding down No Scroll + key sends 3
characters: ctrl-A key CR. I have some functions which bind, say,
ctrl-A b CR to backward-word, but I would like to have a technique for
making No Scroll + key work *exactly* the same as ESC + key, i.e. as a
real meta key, however that key might be bound in the current buffer.

Ideally I would like to have a single function, bound to ctrl-A, which
handles everything. I can think of a couple of ways this might work,
but my knowledge of the Gnu functions is not strong enough to
implement them. The function could pick up the next two characters
from the input stream and then either push an escape + char back into
the input stream, or look up the appropriate function in the meta key
keymap table and call it. Can anyone suggest a way to implement this?
Any pointers would be appreciated.
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