aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug) (06/08/89)
I have completed making a set of Gnu Emacs bindings for the Alt key to work like a Meta key. But... these bindings only seem to work for the right alt key, not the left alt key. The manual shows no difference between the escape sequences generated by the left and the right alt keys. Anyone encounter this problem before? solutions? I am using a 4D-something. thanks dan haug-- Internet: haug@austin.lockheed.com UUCP: ut-emx!lad-shrike!aihaug
kipp@warp.wpd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman) (06/08/89)
The left alt key, in support of international usage, is actually (by default) treated as a ``compose'' key. Currently there is no standard software support fo disabling this behaviour. However, a trick that would work is to hack the PostScript keyboard translation code (as others on the network have gleefully done) to turn the left alt key code into the right alt key code so that the low level translation code never sees the left alt key...Any volunteers? kipp hickman silicon graphics inc.