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From: saponara@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Saponara)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.hp
Subject: GNUemacs and HP2392
Message-ID: <4698@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 5 May 88 16:23:27 GMT
Reply-To: saponara@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Haines, actually)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc
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Summary: rats, still can't get it to go...
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To anyone who has figured out how to get the `Extend char' key on their HP2392
to act as the Meta key, using GNU emacs 18.50 on an HP 300 series machine (a
350, to be exact):  Help!

I've tried and tried, but it don't go (and I've seen it done at another site,
but can't contact them).  First, using untic and tic, I added to the
/usr/lib/terminfo/2/2392 file:

    km,		[which allegedly says that there is a meta key]

and tic'ed it into place.

Then I added to my .emacs startup file:

    (setq meta-flag t)

and tried out gnu-emacs.  No go: the ESC key still acted as the Meta key, and
`Extend char' was still useless.  So, does anyone know how to set things up
to make this work?

Also, while I'm here:  if you have been able to do the above, you are also
probably smart enough to have made a default.el which sets up all the special
keys to the right of the main keyboard to be useful (i.e. `Clear display',
`Prev', the arrow keys, etc).  Could you please send this on to me and save
me some more hacking through the swamps?

Any help appreciated,

Eric Haines (not John Saponara, no matter what my header says)