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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Keyboard macro/mapping program.
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Date: 10 Mar 89 07:08:37 GMT
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In article <SCOTTH.89Mar9082112@harlie.sgi.com| scotth@harlie.sgi.com (Scott Henry) writes:
|| Is there a program (public domain or commercial) that will permit me
|| to define macro bindings for certain key strokes?  In particular, when
|| running a terminal emulator and running emacs on a remote machine I
|| would like the ALT key to behave like a metakey -- e.g. ALT-x maps
|| onto ESC x.
|
|The terminal program Handshake handles the Alt keys as meta keys (though
|for some reason the right one flashes when you first press it). Many
|Emacs's (GNU Emacs in particular) accept the high-bit of a character as
|the meta-prefix. Just put (set-variable 'meta-flag t) in your ~/.emacs
|(or whatever your emacs startup file is named).

A-Talk III reads the "current" keymap and will ridefine only the keypad and
function keys, depending on the selected emulator.  As such, when used with
8 bits, no parity, it will send out 8-bit characters.  You can build your own
keymap with any of the PD keymap editors and then use it as follows:

Setmap MetaKeymap
run ATalk3
Wait 5
Setmap usa1

The 8-bit chars (invoked with the ALT-keys) can be used as explained above.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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