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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:09:35 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>
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On 2002-04-01 07:57, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> >If you do that, you can still invoke Emacs' help with `M-x help' or bind
> >some other key to invoke the `help' function, like `ESC h' with proper key
> >mappings in your .emacs file.
>
> While we're on the subject, how can I map the Alt key to be the Meta key
> when running from the console?

That takes a bit of syscons keymap hacking.  You can copy one of the
keymaps from /usr/share/sysconns/keymaps to your custom.map file, and edit
the key entry for LeftAlt.  The kbdmap(5) manpage says that using 'meta'
instead of 'lalt' will do what you want :-)

I haven't tested this, but if you try it out and it works, I'd be glad to
know (a followup to the list would be nice).

- Giorgos


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