From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 21:04:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25732 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperhost.net ([207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25692 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from asus ([207.226.55.68]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA08814 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:03:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Patrick Seal" To: "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: Alt key in text mode... Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:02:53 -0400 Message-ID: <000f01bdb9dc$9805c2e0$0100a8c0@asus.hyperhost.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <19980727181203.A18900@drwho.xnet.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have to use the window key on my keyboard for ALT for some reason. If you have one of the WIN95 keyboards try that key. ¸.·´`·.¸ `.¸.·´|| || || ¸.·´`·.¸| `.¸.·´|| || || |¸.·´`·.¸| `.¸.·´ Patrick Seal > Ok, I'm getting a little irritated about this one. > > I need to get the Alt key to work in text mode. Right now, I try typing: > > Alt+BackSpace > > Nothing happens. Instead, I have to hit escape, backspace. Not only is > it annoying, but in Emacs, the annoyance becomes a problem. > > Is there something I need to put in the keymap file? If so, what? At > least give me an idea... I'm strongly tempted to go back to Linux over > little details like this. I really don't want to have to do that. > > I would greatly appreciate any info on this. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message