Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:44:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rickl@ic.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible sc0 problem Message-ID: <199710122044.NAA20068@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710121746.TAA16460@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at Oct 12, 97 07:46:09 pm
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> > > 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-). I remember running Emacs in LISP on TOPS-10. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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