Hello Eric, You are right. In Spanish it happens the same, and I assume in many other keyboard distributions out there.
So, closed case. If someone wants R-ALt to act like L-Alt, maybe they can try the KEYB trick and let us know. Aitor On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 21:07, Eric Auer via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi Aitor, > > I would assume that right alt DELIBERATELY does not act like > a generic ALT key in EDIT: In German, for example, you need > that right "Alt Gr" key for some accented characters, so it > must not act as a function shift key. I remember not being > able to use some other editor exactly because it treated any > ALT like ALT, making me unable to type "@" because it wanted > to treat it like "ALT-Q" or "ALT-@" with a special meaning > for the ALT status instead of as an ordinary character. > > Maybe it would be useful to make this configurable in EDIT, > but in a minimalist way, for example a checkbox whether R-ALT > counts as ALT (for hotkeys) or is not to be interfered with. > > Regards, Eric > > > > > Hello, > > > > Sounds like it could be a bug in Edit, I'll see about it when I have a > > little time. > > > > Now for the original question: is it possible to make R-Alt work like > L-Alt? > > It should be possible to do that with FD-KEYB.The idea is to intercept > > Right-Alt and then emit Left-Alt, and get back to the BIOS driver. This > > trick is unlikely lo work in a pre-AT-class machines, but in this older > > machines, you can try and run FD-KEYB with the /9 and see if it works. > > > > The trick is like this: R-Alt is an E0-prefixed L-Alt, so you should > define > > a new plane for the E0: > > [PLANES] > > ... > > ... > > E0 > > > > Then, make a new mappings sections that would just catch the R-Alt and > emit > > a L-Alt (the scancode for Alt is 38h = 56 > > > > [KEYS:ralt] > > 56 56/#0 > > > > Finally, add this new mapping to your Submappings section, at the end, so > > that it works as a fallback for the other cases (change the codepage for > > whatever you desire): > > > > [Submappings] > > ... > > ... > > 437 ralt > > > > If someone wants to give it a try and works, let me know, should be > > interesting stuff. > > You can apply the same trick to make "extended" keys work as > non-extended. > > > > Aitor > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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