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> From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons)
> Date: 23 Jul 2007 13:52:15 GMT
> 
> I thought that Emacs must handle Alt somehow, since I can use Alt combos
> on the console too, but I guess that the console driver handles it somehow?

Either the console driver or the low-level code in Emacs that has
intimate knowledge of the console behavior and keyboard.