Re: How does the Meta/Alt-Key work behind the scenes?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:

Hi William,

> TTY keys are complicated, and really limit the ability of an application
> like Emacs to use its bucky bits.  Some chords that are valid in a
> window system are not valid in a console (or in a terminal emulator
> under normal circumstances, which acts like a console).  See
> e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_control_characters and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code to get a feel for what is
> possible and what is missing.

thanks for the links, nice background info, its really not as simple as
it looks at first sight. 

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cheers,
Thorsten