wdimm@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (William Dimm) (08/12/89)
Someone had posted a complaint about auto-fill (I believe) not working on micro emacs, and I responded by email that it did work on mg2a. That person wrote back saying that he didn't use mg2a because he needed to use characters with ASCII codes greater than 127 which caused problems with mg2a interpreting them as escaped characters. Since then, I lost his net address, so I am posting... There is a symbol which you #define when compiling mg2a which causes the ALT key to be interpreted as an ESC (actually 'meta'). You may be able to use the full character set if you recompile without this #define - I don't know (I had trouble compiling it with Lattice 5.02 so I didn't test this).
mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) (08/13/89)
In article <608@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> wdimm@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (William Dimm) writes: > There is >a symbol which you #define when compiling mg2a which causes the >ALT key to be interpreted as an ESC (actually 'meta'). You may >be able to use the full character set if you recompile without this >#define - I don't know (I had trouble compiling it with Lattice 5.02 >so I didn't test this). The name of the preprocessor definition is DO_METAKEY. If defined, MG 2a interprets ALT'ed keys as META keys, otherwise the characters you type are put into the buffer as-is. However, there is also a function (meta-key-mode) that lets you do this without recompiling the program. If you put the line (meta-key-mode) in S:.mg, MG 2a should put the characters you type into the buffer unchanged. At least it did this when I wrote and tested the code more than a year and half ago. :-) Mic Kaczmarczik (a lapsed MG 2a developer) UT Austin Computation Center mic@emx.utexas.edu -- Mic Kaczmarczik If you drink, don't drill. UT Austin Computation Center -- Matt Groening mic@emx.utexas.edu MIC@UTAIVC.BITNET