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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:14:27 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: jahan <jahan@pc.jaring.my>,
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Subject: Re: Who eats my Alt-F and Alt-W ?
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In the last episode (Apr 28), jahan said:
> Now, give it back.  ha ha.
> 
> So you are kbd demon ? or tty ? or kbdmap ?
> 
> Jason C. Wells wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, jahan wrote:
> >
> > >Dear Colleagues,
> > >
> > >                           Can any expert  tell me , who eats my
> > >Alt-Keys  in tvision programs ?
> >
> > Sorry. I was hungry. :)

By default the keyboard mappings don't treat the ALT key as a special
key.  ALT-F sends 'f'.  

If you were expecting ESC-'f', change your keyboard mapping for the
left-ALT key (scandoce 056) from 'lalt' to 'meta'.  That'll make it
send an escape character in front of the letter.

If you were expecting æ (an 'f' with the high bit set), go down the
"ALT" column on your keymap file and set the high bit on all the
characters.

(run "kbdcontrol -d" to dump the current keymap.  run "kbdcontrol -l
mapfile" to load a modified one)

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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