From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Apr 21 10: 1:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6003337B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 49481 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Apr 2001 17:00:15 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:00:15 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alt/meta on toshiba Message-ID: <20010421200015.G458@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Harry Putnam , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from reader@newsguy.com on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:50:15AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:50:15AM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running 4.2-STABLE > On a Toshiba 4005CDS > > I'm an emacs user and would like to use the left alt on my keyboard > for emacs `meta' key rather than having to use ESC. > > It seems pressing the left alt key doesn't send any keysym at all. Not > only not to emacs which can be checked with `C-h l' after pressing keys, > but not to the terminal either. > > This may not be the most sophisticated way to check but I checked by > typing: `cat ' > > Then typing ALT-b. All I see is the `b' > Where as Ctrl-b shows ^b > > Is this a hardware thing that cannot be changed or something OS > related I can do to make the left alt key work for emacs? Indeed, this is something OS-related. The kernel does not treat the Alt keys as Meta at all. For a patch against 4.x-stable (made against 4.2-STABLE, but works perfectly well against 4.3-RELEASE or 4.3-STABLE), see http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/bsd/ G'luck, Peter -- If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message