perry@piermont.com said:
> 2) To add an option to wscons to do the "send esc then char when
>    alt-char is hit" as an alternative to setting the eighth bit.

Bill Sommerfeld was interested in this. Perhaps he comes up
with a good implemtation...

> PCVT
> allowed both behaviors depending on a knob setting.

knob == compile time option afair.

Are there applications besides emacs which can make use
of the ESC prefix?

best regards
Matthias