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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:16:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alt and Meta mapping (was: possible sc0 problem) 
Message-ID:  <199710131516.LAA08855@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <25390.876733912@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <19971013183646.08998@lemis.com> <25390.876733912@critter.freebsd.dk>

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<<On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:11:52 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:

> In message <19971013183646.08998@lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>> think that there's an easy way to solve all problems.  Inmy case, I'd
>> rather have Alt as Meta, and use [Fn] [Alt] on the few occasions I
>> want to switch VTs.

> Great fine and all that, just remember that all the people who have
> set up X apps (netscape!) for ALT-foo will loose with this change.

No they won't.  I have had a META key in X for six years, and all the
applications behave the right way---even Netscrape.  All they really
care about is that the modifier bit is set.  (Well, xterm does notice,
and does the right thing---set the high bit!)

-GAWollman

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