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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 08:44:44PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>>>> He's the one that wanted the left ALT key to behave like META, ie it
>>>> prepends an ESC to the key pressed (for EMACS fanatics)....
>>>
>>> It does?  I thought it just set the 8th bit. :)
>>
>> Nope, that would make it useless in the real world, remember you
>> live in a 7bit disabled world, the rest of us don't :)
>
> The VT220 manual shows 7 bit National Replacement Character Sets for
> Western European countries, including Germany.  8-) 8-).

So what?  Nobody uses them, because they're hopelessly restrictive.

> I remember running Emacs in LISP on TOPS-10.

And not again since?

Greg