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From: jgm@fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu (John G. Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Alternate as META key?
Message-ID: <7953@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 22:04:22 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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I'm writing an application (a terminal emulator for emacs) which wants
to treat the "Alternate" key as a meta key.

If I get a keyDown event with the NX_ALTERNATEMASK, I want to find the
charCode that the event would have had if the event didn't have
NX_ALTERNATEMASK.  I can take the keyCode and do a lookup in a table
constructed from the keyboard layout given in the online manual, but
that's hardware-dependent.  Anyone have a hardware-independent
solution?

Replies to me--I'll summarize.
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