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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UEmacs, CygnusEd question
Keywords: uEMACS
Message-ID: <9506@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 21:55:38 GMT
References: <16088@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
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In article <16088@louie.udel.EDU> 
	"kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@
	alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
>I've been trying to figure out how to get UEmacs (I think it's ver. 3.9)
>to recognize ALT as a META key (i.e. ALT+char -> <ESC> char) since I
>would then have basically identical keystrokes as my lisp machine editor
>ZMACS.  My first shot at this was defining keys in the UEmacs init file,
>which worked fine for the function keys and numeric keypad but would
>only work from within UEmacs (NOT in an init file) for the ALT keys.
> 

	MicroEMACS 3.10 allows you to use the ALT key as a real meta
key, thus if you have a function bound to M-A, you would hold down the
ALT key and strike the A key.  Look in the source code in the AMIGADOS.C
file and you will be able to easily locate the code doing this.

>So, here's the question(s):
> 
>1.	I believe there's a new version of UEmacs
>out and about; does anybody know if it will allow EITHER redefinition of
>alt keys from init files OR use of the standard system keymaps?  
> 

	The standard system key maps would not allow me to both use the
function keys and interpet the mouse in a manner which made the code and
the bindings portable to other platforms.

	The current version of uEMACS is available from
zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (128.210.13.1) for anonymous ftp and is also
available from the BBS listed in my signiture.

 
>Thanks!
> 
>Montgomery N. Kosma

		no problem,
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