josh@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Joshua Marantz) (09/21/88)
Does anyone have code to make the alt key on the IBM RT work with Gnu Emacs under AIX? I have (setq meta-flag t), but when you press (for example) Alt-a, Emacs receives ESC [087q. The number 087 corresponds to some sort of scancode, because it increments when pressing ALT-a, ALT-s, ALT-d, and so on. Another potentential point of frustration is that ALT-< and ALT-, generate the same sequence. I'm sure running X solves this, but we don't have it yet, and we desire Emacs functionality outside the X environment, if at all possible. I'm sure someone must have already written Elisp that covers most of the alt keys. Thanks in advance, -Josh