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From: wright@tc.fluke.COM (Dave Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: where is a Sun-3's meta key?
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 15:00:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 15:00:25 1987
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Summary: Be sure there's a :km: entry in /etc/termcap

In article <1696@culdev1.UUCP>, drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes:
> > Does GNU Emacs recognize any of the keys on a Sun-3 keyboard as a true
> > meta key
> Yes, the "Left" and "Right" keys (right next to the space bar)
> function as meta keys.

There's an obscurely (or un-) documented termcap file entry called "km" (has
meta key) which must be present in the "sun" termcap entry before v18 emacs will
recognize the Left and Right keys as meta keys with SunOS 3.4.  Yes, we found
this out the hard way.

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