Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:55:14 +0530 From: "Sanjay Bhattacharya" <sanbh@gmx.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ALT key Message-ID: <003201c20f86$cebef2d0$876dc5cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz>
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Hi, I am extremely sorry for bugging the list again with a keyboard related problem. My apologies to all of you. I am unable to get my ALT key working as the META key in bash. So when I press ALT-B, I get a B printed instead of the cursor moving backward by a word. And I have to use the escape key as the META key ie,. ESC-B instead of ALT-B. I tried putting several settings in my ~/.inputrc file so that readline respects my ALT key. But nothing happened. I have tried disabling the terminal's stripping of the 8th bit of the input characters and still nothing. I tried stty -istrip. I have rampaged the net but I couldn't come up with any stuff that's helpful. I have a Win keyboard with 105 keys and I am using FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE with bash-2.05a. I'll be very grateful if you guys can help me out with this problem. Thanks a lot in advance. Regards, Sanjay. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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