Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:55:49 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using META and DEL keys in console Message-ID: <20050302002549.GX73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050301194338.3a49611d@ale.varnet.bsd> References: <20050301194338.3a49611d@ale.varnet.bsd>
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On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:43:38 -0300, Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a PS/2 PC-101 keyboard.
>
> I would like to use my META (ALT in my keyboard) key instead of ESC in
> console mode. META works fine in an xterm. I also would like to use DEL
> and others.
>
> [description omitted]
There's a special key map for Emacs. Try this:
1. To test it, do:
kbdcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.emacs.kbd
2. To have it set automatically on boot, put this in your
/etc/rc.conf:
keymap=us.emacs.kbd
> 2) Some strange thing happens with Emacs in console mode: when I press
> DEL, it is interpreted (literally) as C-h, and C-h is used as
> BACKSPACE.
It's not clear which keys you're talking about here, nor which codes
they're really generating. If you still have problems, please
clarify.
> And C-d acts as DEL.
That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with
the termcap entries.
> 3) Also DEL does not do anything in xterm.
In X, try running xev to see what it's really generating.
Greg
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