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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Concepts with almost-META keys
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 21:03:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 21:03:42 1985
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Actually, if you're using Gosling Emacs, a true meta key will act
exactly as your pseudo-meta key (in fact you may *have* a true meta
key).  There is only one place in the entire source that reads input
from the terminal, and it translates meta-foo into ESC-foo.

While the problem is potentially repairable by changing Emacs to have
full 256-entry keymaps, we decided not to even attempt *that*.
Instead, we modified undo and incremental search to use an Emacs
variable to control which key(s?) terminate the undo or search.  Set
this to ^G (or whatever you prefer), and meta keys "work" again.
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