Date: 10 Oct 1996 00:22:34 -0500 From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Alt/Meta-Key problems/ pty problem? Message-ID: <87buebv1et.fsf@bedrock.gaffaneys.com> In-Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de's message of Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:39:24 %2B0200 (MET DST) References: <9610091039.AA13572@wavehh.hanse.de>
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cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes: > I noticed that the Alt-(Meta) Key for emacs doesn't work with > FreeBSD. This happens since at least 2.0.5 and still is a problem on > 0801-Snap. This works with NetBSD. Works fine for me, now that I figured out what was wrong. You need this line in your .emacs file: (set-input-mode t nil t) or something like it. type 'C-Hdset-input-mode' for documentation. It should be the first line, or if you're like me and start typing before the editor has completely loaded, you'll notice some nasty side-effects. The other thing you have to do is copy and modify the appropriate keyboard definition file in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. All the entries under an 'Alt' header need to have the 8th bit set. I have a keyboard definition file I can mail those who want it, but it isn't quite like any of the others (ctrl-alt-delete is mapped to Meta-DEL, for instance). -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing only culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.
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