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From: mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic (... K[a-z]+) Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Misbehavior in Jove
Summary: mg2a does meta keys on the Amiga
Keywords: meta key vs. ESC key
Message-ID: <3466@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 22:15:09 GMT
References: <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <2146@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: mic@emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, User Services Unix Support Group
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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. Do the implementors really prefer hitting ESC, or have
>they just forgotten that ESC is just a kludge?

Amiga mg2a, recently posted to comp.sources.misc, has meta-key-mode,
where hitting ALT and another key sets the 8th bit of the character
code for that key.  This is interpreted by the system independent code
as a meta key. It's really nice to get all the meta functions in a
single keystroke. You can also turn this mode off when you want to
insert these characters into your buffer.

Earlier versions (1a/b) relied on the keymap to set the 8th bit when
you used the ALT key, so when Commodore changed the default keymap in
1.2, this no longer did what one might wish. My first approach was to
just use the old 1.1 keymap, but after a while someone who uses the
Dvorak keymap asked me to fix the meta key.  Check it out.

--mic--

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