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- From: cwilson@toast.wpd.sgi.com (Chan Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Meta key for the GS
- Message-ID: <pmlhak0@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 00:18:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.164411.28936@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <behrenss.715735363@hphalle6> <pkuldso@fido.asd.sgi.com> <behrenss.716086137@hphalle6>
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- In article <behrenss.716086137@hphalle6>, behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE writes:
- > cwilson@toast.wpd.sgi.com (Chan Wilson) writes:
- >
- > >In article <behrenss.715735363@hphalle6>, behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE writes:
- > >> Use the ESC key for a META key. Works like a charm with my emacs here
- > >> at university.
- > >That's not a fix, that's a workaround. In Z-link, you can rebind
- > >closed-apple keys to things like 'esc v' which is more of a fix.
- >
- > Pardon? Where is the diff between esc v and option-v other than the fact that
- > option-v is probably easier to type?
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- Meta is a modifier key, like shift and control. It turns the 8th bit on.
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- With terminals and keyboards that don't support the Meta key, or turning
- the 8th bit on, the Escape key is used as a prefix character as a workaround.
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- > If you tell emacs about these new key-bindings, there should be no problem.
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- They aren't new bindings, so you wouldn't have to tell emacs anything....
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- --Chan
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