Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:44:02 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: David Bassin <dbassin AT mail DOT usyd DOT edu DOT au>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs and right alt key
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, David Bassin wrote:

> Presumably the the action of the right alt key will be dependent on elisp
> variable(s) in some way.

No, it's automatic.  The code checks whether the international
keyboard support is loaded, and if not, makes the two Alt keys behave
identically.

>  Will this be documented in the README, or
> somewhere else?  It's often not obvious where to look for
> implementation-specific documentation such as this; I wouldn't expect a
> change like this would make into the general emacs info documentation at
> this stage (or would it)?

The only platform-dependent docs in Emacs is in the file PROBLEMS
(it describes known problems in building Emacs on certain platforms).
Everything else, especially if it explains how do certain features
work, should be in the Emacs manual.  When there's a change in
functionality, such as the case in point, I always update the manual
and submit the docs changes together with the source patches.  In
fact, Richard Stallman (who wrote and maintains Emacs) makes a point
of requiring this.

In this case, the documentation has been already updated to reflect
the change.