Recommendations for terminal with Meta key?

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From: Robert Maier
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1988 07:54

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I plan on buying a new terminal for personal use.  Since I use Emacs a
good bit, a Meta key is high on my list of requirements.  An escape
key, even a reasonably placed one, is a poor substitute.

Grepping for the `km' attribute (i.e., Meta key) in the Berkeley
termcap file turns up only the following:

	Mu|sun|Sun Microsystems Workstation console:
	SD|supdup|SUPDUP virtual terminal:
	MX|dmchat|dmchat version of datamedia 2500:
	hz|2392|hp2392|hp2392a:
	y7|t10|teleray 10 special:

Are the last three really the only choices I have?  Does anyone have
any other recommendations?

To be effective a Meta key should be as close to the Shift key as the
Control key is.  Switching from Control-v to Meta-v should be
painless...

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