Re: Meta key in shelltool

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From: Kevin Broadey
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:24

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I tried to e-mail a reply but it was bounced for "unknown user"...

Hi Colin,

In newsgroup gnu.emacs.help you wrote:

Colin> It would be nice to run emacs in a shelltool or cmdtool because
Colin> then I can cut and paste to/from it. But the normal (for me) Meta
Colin> key, namely the keys with diamonds on on either side of the space
Colin> bar on a Sun keyboard do not seem to be recognized as Meta, or
Colin> anything else for that matter, when shelltool is in charge. Is
Colin> there a fix for this?

I assume you're talking about running under Sun's Open Look GUI.

If so, you probably need to do "stty cs8" before running emacs to flip
the tty driver into 8-bit character mode - meta characters all have
their to bit set, and this will be stripped off if the tty is in 7-bit
mode.

Kevin
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