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Re: Misbehavior in Jove

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From: Richard McAllister
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1988 00:09
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In article <2146@sugar.UUCP>, Peter da Silva asks:
>Why don't any of the Micro emacses implement REAL meta keys? Both the IBM-PC
>and the Amiga have these nice ALT keys in a real convenient spot, just ready
>for use as a metakey. 

Good idea, but until that happens a keyboard macro program (like Superkey or
Prokey on PCs, there must be equivalents for Amigas) can remap alt-x to
ESC-x and give the same effect.  It even works when dialing into a host.
Rich McAllister (rfm@sun.com)
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From: rfm%urth@Sun.COM (Richard McAllister)
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Subject: Re: Misbehavior in Jove
Summary: You can fake a meta key easy
Message-ID: <57393@sun.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 88 00:09:40 GMT
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