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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Misbehavior in Jove
Summary: mg1b, at least, has a meta key
Message-ID: <611@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 88 19:15:52 GMT
References: <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <2146@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
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In article <2146@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Why don't any of the Micro emacses implement REAL meta keys? Both the IBM-PC
> and the Amiga have these nice ALT keys in a real convenient spot, just ready
> for use as a metakey. 
The version called 'mg1b' for the Amiga does use the ALT key as a meta key.
Its cousins too probably have that. But this is a complie time option and you
may have to recompile. On top of that this works only if you use the 'usa0'
keymap: '\200'|chr is considered as meta+chr. (Added inconvenience: The extra
keys on the 500/2000 are inaccesible). May be somebody can write a module for
emacs that takes the raw keycodes and converts them into what ever emacs wants.

This is still a kludge. Apparently 'alt+shift' is not done right on the Amiga.