From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 0:25:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6219F37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1976 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jun 2002 07:25:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO corrsl7vs6l3tz) (203.197.109.135) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 9 Jun 2002 07:25:34 -0000 Message-ID: <003201c20f86$cebef2d0$876dc5cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> From: "Sanjay Bhattacharya" To: Subject: ALT key Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:55:14 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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