Re: Switch Meta and Alt modifiers

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     The reason is that it's specific to X.
> 
> Is it needed, other than with X?  As far as I know, only X
> has so many modifier keys, and only with X is there any need to modify
> what maps to what.

AFAIK, all the supported versions, with the exception of the Unix tty, 
support those modifiers.  As Jason pointed out, a similar facility 
already exists in the Windows port (and another one is in the DOS port).  
I think it would be nice to have a single facility that is platform 
independent.