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I think that Jamie (jwz@lucid.com) has a good point about the 8bit
patch.  Converting key combinations to a single 8bit character seems
like regression to a less expressive keyboard interpretation.  

Eight bit fonts are clearly a desirable thing, but why does the input
need to be munged?  Are we emulating some strange terminals?

Emacs has a tradition of interpretting "\ev" and "\M-v" to be
identical.  I suggest it is time to make this interpretation optional.
How about honoring the widely accepted interpretation of EMACS as
Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift, and let those of us with Alt and Meta
keys use them directly in the key bindings?  I believe that lemacs
does this easily.  I've got enough bindings that I don't need to
disrupt the association between meta and escape, but I can see why
others might want to.

If we bind the Meta key the same as the ESC key by default, then \ev
and \M-v still work the same, as expected.  If someone wants to use
the meta key for inserting 8bit characters, bind meta to a map filled
by self-insert-key-8bit and everyone is happy.  Yes?  No?


BTW, it is nice to see Jamie contributing here, even though lemacs is
in some sense competitive with epoch.  I personally like the lemacs
input model very much, and I think it would be good if epoch and
emacs-19 go that direction.

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