From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 3 12:36:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26008 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA26003 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:36:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA08478; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:30:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703032030.NAA08478@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Alt key in syscons To: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:30:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Mark Hannon" at Mar 2, 97 12:47:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ ... meta key keymap ... ] > 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. Because it conflicts with the default keycode translation used by X to implement "input methods" for non-US users for "compose key" and "non-US keyboard" mapping behaviours? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.