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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hplabs!unix.sri.com!csl.sri.com!news!gilham From: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Console configuration Date: 14 Aug 1995 21:40:27 GMT Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International Lines: 31 Message-ID: <GILHAM.95Aug14144028@lily.csl.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csl.sri.com Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 2.0.5 and I'd like to reconfigure my console so the arrow key in the upper right corner gives a delete and so that the keys next to the space bar generate meta characters. I tried to use the pcvt driver. That seems to give the `alt' behavior---unless I run emacs, which is the whole point of the exercise---but the pcvt driver seems kind of flaky, especially with tcsh. For example, I managed to get it into a mode where it would only print on a single line every time I ran `less'. I don't know how I did this... Anyway I went back to the standard console. But I'd like to get consistent behavior even when I'm not running X. Has anyone else tried to do this? I can't find much documentation on the console drivers. I know there's a kcon program for the pcvt driver but as I said, that driver was not real stable for me. The keymaps that are in /usr/share are unintelligible to me. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com King Christ, this world is all aleak, / And life preservers there are none, And waves that only He may walk / Who dared to call Himself a man. -- e. e. cummings, from Jehovah Buried, Satan Dead