forgot to mention. M-; may be usable for you. if your terminal emulator is cooperative, the alt or meta key might set the 8th bit of any 7-bit ascii char, so meta can modify any char. you might have to tell emacs to expect 8-bit chars as meta modifiers (see 'set-input-mode') using the high bit as meta may or may not interfere with typing accented chars.
some terminal emulators will turn meta-; into the keysequence esc-; instead of setting the high bit, and that's also usable. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Carbon Emacs User Group http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
