bennett@uahtitan.ai.mit.edu (Mark Bennett) (03/05/91)
Hi, Some recent talk in the user group has brought to mind my favorite unanswered GNU emacs question: "can the COMPOSE CHARACTER found on many DEC terminals be made into a META key?" Specifically, I am using a VT240 (no - I was not the one who decided to buy it - I inherited it). Even a definitive and authoritative "NO" would put my mind at ease. Please email to the address below,(however I do faithfully read this newsgroup). Thanks. Mark J. Bennett Center for Microgravity and Materials Research The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 (205)895-6889 bennett@uahtitan.uah.edu (129.66.23.6)
eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin) (03/08/91)
>> Some recent talk in the user group has brought to mind my >>favorite unanswered GNU emacs question: "can the COMPOSE CHARACTER >>found on many DEC terminals be made into a META key?" >> Specifically, I am using a VT240 (no - I was not the one who >>decided to buy it - I inherited it). I once knew someone who worked on the microcode for the vt200 series (we were interested in doing exactly this, back in emacs 17.63 or so. Yes, that's a long time :-) The answer was "only if you burn new ROMs" and that wasn't a likely option... the current "function" of the compose key is to generate european (and other?) characters, one example I think was c with a cedilla beneath it, you'd just type "<Compose> <c> <,>" and get the right character (something above 128.) Note that this behavior was specific to the vt200 series; the LK201 keyboard itself is also used for the microvax, vs2000, vs3100, ds3100, etc workstations, and all of them support Compose as Meta (at least running X11.) I don't recall any technical reason that DEC couldn't produce ROMs to operate in Meta mode, but as far as I know they've never done so, or at least not marketed them (I've got some friends at DEC that I'm sure would have them if they existed.) _Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu> MIT Student Information Processing Board Watchmaker Computing <eichin@watch.com>