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From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Alt == Meta?  How hard to do?
Date: 23 Apr 1994 20:34:52 -0500
Organization: The University of Texas - Austin
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Many programs seem to use the Meta key, which I have to simulate with
ESC (ex: command line editing in BASH). 
Is it possible, and/or advisable, to use the Alt key as Meta?
I have never seen a program which wants to use the Alt key as such.
For that matter, the function keys go unused as well.

Where would you make a change like this?
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