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Re: text console, Meta in emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas C Sobczynski)
Tue Oct 13 00:35:55 1998
To: yak@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:32:10 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:35:44 EDT
From: Thomas C Sobczynski <tcs@MIT.EDU>
> > Meta-anything is treated as the -anything without the Meta in emacs on
> > the console.
>
> If you really want meta, you can recompile your kernel withe the
> pccons console driver instead of the pcvt console driver. This will,
> among other things, get you meta support, but lose virtual terminals.
> I do not believe that pcvt supports meta at all.
>
> yak
For this machine, recompiling the kernel is not an option, and I make
frequent use of virtual terminals.
If pcvt doesn't support meta at all, how do NetBSD users use emacs?
Tom
