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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:44:48 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: possible sc0 problem
Message-ID:  <19971013164448.18208@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710130543.PAA00380@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:13:49PM %2B0930
References:  <199710121830.UAA16761@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> <199710130543.PAA00380@word.smith.net.au>

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On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:13:49PM +0930, Mike Smith wrote:
>>> Before we blame Soren, what are we all talking about here?  The Alt
>>> key is on the right now, as per my change to kbdtables.h, and the left
>>
>> So this might provoke some fun in FreeBSD-questions if a newbie is
>> guided to through installing 2.2.5 and is asked to press the right
>> ALT key and F2.
>
> This sucks even more when you find that a lot of systems (laptops,
> embedded systems) don't _have_ two ALT keys.
>
>> The fun will not last long, so I suggest to backout this change.
>
> The correct fix is to have ALT-Fn do the "right thing", while still
> generating Meta-
>
> This is left as an exercise to the original committer. 8)

No fair.  You came up with this idea, now prove it.

I have a function M-F1 which inserts a \f(BI.\fP\| around the point.
I have a function C-M-F1 which inserts a \f(CI.\fP\| around the point.
How do I change for /dev/ttyv0 using the Meta key?

Greg




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