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In article <9203291441.AA02565@Galois.nscf.org> francis@dogwood.UUCP (John Stracke) writes:
   >and additionally, the "meta bit" concept should go away. This way
   >8-bit chars can be made first-class citizens.
   [...]
   >What do you Epoch people think, shouldn't this (or something similar)
   >be put into Epoch?

   Perhaps as a compile-time option.  But being able to press Alt-f
   instead of Esc-f saves me a *lot* of trouble; I'd hate to give it up.

Sure, this hasn't gone away in my 8-bit Emacs version. The mod1
modifier ("meta") when added to a key means ESC prefix, the net result
being identical to pressing ESC and the key sequentially. (Actually,
it works this way only if the "metized" key is one that generates a
keysym corresponding to a (8-bit) character. I handle for instance
meta-InsertLine differently.)

But if your keyboard has keys that send 8-bit chars, you can use them,
and the 8-bit char is read by Emacs like any ASCII char. You can use
them in incremetal search, for instance.
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Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland