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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [SYSCONS] Can't the PC keyboard send ctl-space? Date: 31 Aug 1994 08:43:06 GMT Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen Lines: 15 Message-ID: <341fqq$dt7@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <miff.777811349@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael Smith (miff@apanix.apana.org.au) wrote: : As every emacs person knows, you use C-SPACE to set the mark (ie send a : null character), however neither syscons, nor any PC terminal program You may experiment with the file /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd. I changed the line for scan code 057 (third column was containing a ' ') to contain a '\000', did a kbdcontrol -l mykeymap.kbd and voila, C-SPACE returned a ^@ (null character). Note that on older systems that command maybe syscons -k keymapfile (off memory). : # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD 1.1.0(Current) (GILSYSCONS) #12: Fri Jun 3 13:36:12 MET DST 1994