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Re: text console, Meta in emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yak@MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 13 00:40:47 1998
From: yak@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:40:37 -0400 (EDT)
To: tcs@MIT.EDU, yak@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
> 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?
They use the pccons driver or X. You may find that gnu screen is an
acceptable alternative to virtual terminals, if you choose to use the
pccons driver.
You could always use ESC instead of meta. Or use ed, the one true
text editor. :-)
yak
