Date: 21 Apr 2001 10:30:18 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Subject: Re: alt/meta on toshiba Message-ID: <m3u23i2mi2.fsf@gnus.cvs.983032537> In-Reply-To: <20010421200015.G458@ringworld.oblivion.bg> (Peter Pentchev's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:00:15 %2B0300") References: <m31yqm42rq.fsf@gnus.cvs.983032537> <20010421200015.G458@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> writes: [...] > > I'm an emacs user and would like to use the left alt on my keyboard > > for emacs `meta' key rather than having to use ESC. [...] > > Is this a hardware thing that cannot be changed or something OS > > related I can do to make the left alt key work for emacs? > > Indeed, this is something OS-related. The kernel does not treat the Alt > keys as Meta at all. For a patch against 4.x-stable (made against 4.2-STABLE, > but works perfectly well against 4.3-RELEASE or 4.3-STABLE), see > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/bsd/ Cool, but to bother you a bit further. How does one apply a patch like this. Or rather, where to look to read up on how to apply a patch like this? Also, there must be others using emacs and alt/meta some way before now isn't there? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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