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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>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Who eats my Alt-F and Alt-W ?
Message-ID:  <19980428171427.A28524@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <354588FD.5652E4D7@pc.jaring.my>; from "jahan" on Tue Apr 28 14:45:01 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980427132208.449E-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <354588FD.5652E4D7@pc.jaring.my>

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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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