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From: provos@wserver.physnet.uni-hamburg.de (Niels Provos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs META?
Date: 22 Jun 1997 17:31:37 GMT
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On 21 Jun 1997 17:11:06 GMT, Ken Mitton wrote:
>maps, but couldn't figure out how to make, for example, 
>alt-x sent esc,x.   Any suggestions?
On OpenBSD I use the following in my .emacs file:
(set-input-mode nil nil t)

This enables parsing the 8th bit of a keycode as pressed meta in Emacs.

Greetings
 Niels

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