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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:37:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Brant Katkansky <bmk@fta.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>, cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Alt/Meta-Key problems/ pty problem?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.961009183645.8401G-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <325C0934.24AE@fta.com>

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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Brant Katkansky wrote:

> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > > Meta-keys for curses emacs are 8-bit characters.  By default, syscons doesn't
> > > generate them for the alt key. The kbdcontrol control command can be used
> > 
> > Is THAT why.  I, for one, would love to see it do that by Default!
> > 
> 
> This is sort of related...
> 
> I'd love to be able to change the key mappings under XFree86 so
> that my function keys behave like the L? keys on my Sun.
> 
> I've figured out how to do this under Solaris x86, but I can't
> get it to fly under FreeBSD.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Not particularly hard to do with X ... do a 'man xmodmap'.  It tells how
to do key remapping.

> 

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