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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Emacs META? Date: 22 Jun 1997 19:58:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5ok05d$mol@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5oh1va$mcq@lace.colorado.edu> <5oiaao$7q5@fridge-nf0.shore.net> <slrn5qpmbl.328.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43322 hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) wrote: > I think he means holding down "ALT" and "f" at the same time to get M-f, > instead of doing "ESC", then "f", which is onconvenient for some people. If i read syscons's source code correctly, you gotta replace the string `lalt' in the keymap file by `meta' in order to get syscons working this way. The functionality to prepend the ESC is definately in the source. -- 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. ;-)