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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs META?
Date: 23 Jun 1997 13:48:12 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5ojen7$1a9@lace.colorado.edu>,
mittonk@fiske.Colorado.EDU (Ken Mitton) writes:
> Exactly. I've got a laptop keyboard, with this tiny little
> ESC key in the corner and a nice large alt key. For me, a modifier
> is easier than a two-key sequence. What I think I need is
> information on how to put escape-prefixed codes in the
> /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/*-format key databases
> (I've tried 'escx', 'esc-x', 'esc,x', esc-'x', esc,'x', etc.)
>
> --Ken Mitton
> mittonk@colorado.edu
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~mittonk/
As joerg already hinted, just change your "lalt" entries to "meta"
in your keyboard map file
from:
056 lalt lalt lalt lalt lalt lalt lalt lalt O
to:
056 meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta O
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !