From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Apr 21 10:30:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B114037B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 22804 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2001 17:30:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reader.local.lan) (209.144.117.151) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 21 Apr 2001 17:30:21 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3LHUIk27511; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:30:18 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: alt/meta on toshiba References: <20010421200015.G458@ringworld.oblivion.bg> From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: <20010421200015.G458@ringworld.oblivion.bg> (Peter Pentchev's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:00:15 +0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 21 Apr 2001 10:30:18 -0700 Lines: 24 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Pentchev writes: [...] > > 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. [...] > > 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/ Cool, but to bother you a bit further. How does one apply a patch like this. Or rather, where to look to read up on how to apply a patch like this? Also, there must be others using emacs and alt/meta some way before now isn't there? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message