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- From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
- Subject: Re: Meta key in shelltool
- In-Reply-To: kendall@lds.loral.com's message of 18 Dec 92 14:14:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <KEVIN.92Dec21142447@calamityjane.edscom.demon.co.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:24:51 GMT
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- I tried to e-mail a reply but it was bounced for "unknown user"...
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- Hi Colin,
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- In newsgroup gnu.emacs.help you wrote:
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- Colin> It would be nice to run emacs in a shelltool or cmdtool because
- Colin> then I can cut and paste to/from it. But the normal (for me) Meta
- Colin> key, namely the keys with diamonds on on either side of the space
- Colin> bar on a Sun keyboard do not seem to be recognized as Meta, or
- Colin> anything else for that matter, when shelltool is in charge. Is
- Colin> there a fix for this?
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- I assume you're talking about running under Sun's Open Look GUI.
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- If so, you probably need to do "stty cs8" before running emacs to flip
- the tty driver into 8-bit character mode - meta characters all have
- their to bit set, and this will be stripped off if the tty is in 7-bit
- mode.
-
- Kevin
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