From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 5 10:23:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11716 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA11709 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA12469; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 19:21:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01394; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 19:04:07 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970705190407.NH18017@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 19:04:07 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: dmm125@bellatlantic.net (Donn Miller) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mapping to meta key in syscons References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Donn Miller on Jul 5, 1997 08:34:57 +0000 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Donn Miller wrote: > 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. Why didn't you read the Usenet thread to the end? I've explained what you gotta do in your keymap files in order to get the Alt key prepending an to the keystroke. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)