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Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS
Message-ID: <1436@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 14:43:48 GMT
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Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <14312@srcsip.UUCP>, rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers) says:
> Summary: how do I get to use the alt key for the meta key
> References:
> 
> I have downloaded MicroEMACS ver 3.9 from the simtel archive,
> but It makes me hit ESC then X for M-X.  
> I would much rather hit the ALT and X at the same time, like on unix
> (on a SUN the LEFT and RIGHT keys are the same as the ALT key)

Without some major modifications to the source it's a no go. The ALT key
doesn't generate an ASCII character input whereas ESC does. Any key that
sends in an character to the machine could be used for META, but ALT is
just a shift key on a PC.

MicroEMACS is the best Emacs I've seen other than GNU. The great thing
about MicroEMACS is that you can have the same editor running both at
home and at work.

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