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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!world1.bawave.com!news.clark.net!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Keyboard maps Date: 26 May 1996 18:59:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4oa9mg$34n@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slrn4q293m.b1.zach@localhost.gaffaneys.com> <4nrvl3$bkb@sidhe.hsc.fr> <slrn4qbqlu.44s.zach@localhost.gaffaneys.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com (Zach Heilig) wrote: > Now if I could only solve the emacs meta-key thing. I have an extra > key on my keyboard (labeled 'macro') next to the left alt key, that > could be used as the meta-key (though it seems that the alt- and > shift-alt- isn't actually used for anything, except for switching > terminals, anyway). > > I have found out the hard way that you can't put multi-byte > definitions in the keyboard map file, unless you like hitting the > reset button. Declare this key as one of the `alt' keys. alt+key is automatically converted inside syscons into ESC+key. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)