From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 5 05:33:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA04646 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 05:33:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from core.IConNet.Net (core.IConNet.NET [199.173.162.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA04629; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 05:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from myname.my.domain (client201-122-10.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.10]) by core.IConNet.Net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA14042; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 08:33:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 08:34:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Donn Miller X-Sender: dmm125@myname.my.domain To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: mapping to meta key in syscons Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I've been reading past news articles in *.freebsd.misc about the problems with syscons and using the key as meta (ESC) in emacs. Some postings suggested adding lines to .emacs and/or loading/modifying the right keyboard map with syscons - something about needing an 8th bit to get the syscons to recognize alt as meta. I basically need to know what to modify, and where. There are many possibilities; one is to modify the syscons.c, another is loading a different key map (I use the default configuration - US). Another posting suggested using kbdcontrol to change this. How is the key mapped by default in syscons? Also, what is the best way to fix it so that alt is mapped to meta in emacs? Actually, I was thinking that the "lowest level" solution was best, i.e., changing the syscons or kbdcontrol behavior instead of just simply remapping the keys under emacs. Presumably, I would think that a good solution would be to make the behave the same way as pcvt allows. Donn email: dmm125@bellatlantic.net phone: 412 547-9089