Emacs and "km" in Termcap entry

[Chris Torek]

In article <1989Dec4.193448.8295 at agate.berkeley.edu>
koonce at brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce) writes:
>...  So, the question is:
> -  What does the "km" entry mean?
> -  Should removing it mess up any other programs?

RTTM (Read The Termcap Manual):

	km	bool	Has a ``meta'' key (shift, sets parity bit)

Emacs assumes that a `km' terminal will send characters with `space'
parity unless the `meta' key is held down.  Emacs will interpret such
keys as if they were prefixed with ESC (`meta' in Emacs parlance).

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