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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
Message-ID: <17768@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 21:39:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 21:39:44 1987
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A good trick on a vt220 keyboard (LK201?) would be to rebind the
#$%^&* COMPOSE CHAR key to be the meta key.  X-Windows on the
Ultrix GPX manages to do this for the mouse (X likes to default
to metafied mouse buttons) -- how dey do dat?  This would particularly
be useful on a microVMS GPX in emacs, because (1) although at the
DCL level the F11 key transmits ESC like a good vt220 emulation,
(2) inside emacs, F11 transmits ESC-[23~ or some such (because
of raw mode?) forcing C-[ as meta -- and (3) neither F11 nor C-[
is particularly easy to type, wheras the COMPOSE CHAR is
always getting in the way.

Mike Khaw
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