mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) (08/04/86)
[From strawberries under torture one can learn many things] Can someone explain what's going on with the default keymap under 1.2? A registered developer friend of mine let me play with his official 1.2 Beta 4 diskettes last weekend. I liked the new Path command and the font editor, but I got a nasty surprise when I fired up MicroEmacs (the PD version, not Commodore's) and tried to use the ALT key as the META qualifier. In 1.1, holding down the ALT key and then pressing an 'A' (ASCII 65) would result in the character code (65+128) being sent to the program reading the keystroke. In the case of MicroEmacs, this allows you to invoke editor functions with one keystroke instead of two, a feature I use quite a bit. Sadly, this seems to have gone south under 1.2. A number of keys have gone dead, while others no longer produce the same character as they did under 1.1. I know that C-A has added support for foreign keyboards in 1.2, but does this require the default keymap to be changed? Can I get it back somehow? Mic Kaczmarczik U.T. Austin Computation Center ARPA: mic@ngp.cc.utexas.edu UUCP: ...!ihnp4!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mic
jdt@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Dave Tenny) (08/05/86)
[...] Well, how about that! I don't use the ALT sequences in my terminal emulator very often, but 'keymap woes' about sums it up. The console.device no longer returns it's former code for ALT-c when ALT-c is hit (now says I hit ALT-g). How about it CA? ... my bug report is in the mail ... ... Dave Tenny
neil@amiga.UUCP (Neil Katin) (08/06/86)
In article <3741@ut-ngp.UUCP> mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes: >[From strawberries under torture one can learn many things] > >Can someone explain what's going on with the default keymap under 1.2? > >A registered developer friend of mine let me play with his official >1.2 Beta 4 diskettes last weekend. I liked the new Path command >and the font editor, but I got a nasty surprise when I fired up >MicroEmacs (the PD version, not Commodore's) and tried to use the >ALT key as the META qualifier. > >In 1.1, holding down the ALT key and then pressing an 'A' (ASCII 65) >would result in the character code (65+128) being sent to the program >reading the keystroke. In the case of MicroEmacs, this allows >you to invoke editor functions with one keystroke instead of two, >a feature I use quite a bit. > >Sadly, this seems to have gone south under 1.2. A number of keys have >gone dead, while others no longer produce the same character as they did >under 1.1. I know that C-A has added support for foreign keyboards >in 1.2, but does this require the default keymap to be changed? Can >I get it back somehow? > > >Mic Kaczmarczik >U.T. Austin Computation Center > >ARPA: mic@ngp.cc.utexas.edu >UUCP: ...!ihnp4!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mic The 1.2 keymap has been changed to support foreign language characters. However, as a gift to all you emacs users out there, the final 1.2 release disks have a new keymap called "usa0" in the keymap directory that will make you keyboard behave just as it did in 1.1. To use it, say "setmap usa0". You will need a 1.2 release disk to use this. Neil Katin
andy@amiga.UUCP (Andy Finkel) (08/06/86)
<Who's afraid of the line eater, anyway ?> In article <3741@ut-ngp.UUCP> mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes: > >Can someone explain what's going on with the default keymap under 1.2? > >A registered developer friend of mine let me play with his official >1.2 Beta 4 diskettes last weekend. I liked the new Path command >and the font editor, but I got a nasty surprise when I fired up >MicroEmacs (the PD version, not Commodore's) and tried to use the >ALT key as the META qualifier. > >Sadly, this seems to have gone south under 1.2. A number of keys have >gone dead, while others no longer produce the same character as they did >under 1.1. I know that C-A has added support for foreign keyboards >in 1.2, but does this require the default keymap to be changed? Can >I get it back somehow? > >Mic Kaczmarczik "A number of keys have gone dead" is an amazingly accurate description of what happened...we added support for dead keys, for foreign language support. We did realize that some software would believe that the ALT keycodes would be fixed, however (foolish software!) and, on the real 1.2 Workbench disk we have placed a usa0 keymap, just like the one in V1.1. (called via the setmap command) andy -- andy finkel Commodore(Amiga) {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy or pyramid!amiga!andy Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors. "Remember, no matter where you grow, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonsai.