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From: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com (Zach Heilig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Keyboard maps
Date: 27 May 1996 01:33:20 GMT
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On 26 May 1996 18:59:28 GMT, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Declare this key as one of the `alt' keys.  alt+key is automatically
>converted inside syscons into ESC+key.

I sure wish I could see this behavior.  In emacs, I hit Alt-<key>, and
only <key> shows up.  In bash, I hit Alt-<key>, and I get Alt-<key>,
same with jove (after turning "meta-key" on, before that, I got <key>
with the high-bit set).  Emacs has too many nice features to leave it
behind (works well with gcc, gdb, etc..)  When I do an apropos on
meta, just a few functions show up, but this is probably wandering too
far off topic (I'll go search out the emacs newsgroup).

-- 
Zach Heilig                            | If this was a virus,
zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com            | you would be dead now.
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