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From: Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
To: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com>
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Subject: Re: Alt key in syscons
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On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Zach Heilig wrote:

> > I looked through the mailing list archives for info on how to setup
> > emacs to use the meta-key in syscons and saw the question, some answers

> Here is the one I use.  It is basically the standard keymap (from 2.1.0)
> with the boot commands removed and the alt key mapped to meta.
> 
> #                                                         alt
> # scan                       cntrl          alt    alt   cntrl lock
> # code  base   shift  cntrl  shift  alt    shift  cntrl  shift state
> # ------------------------------------------------------------------
>   000   nop    nop    nop    nop    nop    nop    nop    nop     O
>   001   esc    esc    nop    nop    0x9b   0x9b   nop    nop     O
> 

Hi,

Well I've installed this keymap (changing back to the default boot
behaviour & backspace behaviour) and hey presto not only does xemacs
work on the console, but I can also use the Meta key in tcsh.

Is there any reason why this shouldn't be the default keymap?  Does
it break something?  If not I can go through all the standard keymaps
and modify them for this and send it to ?? for submission.

Regards/Mark


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