This was the perfect answer!
I wasn't sure if "meta" was something that would be recognized in the
keymap files, but it worked like a charm.
Rather than edit the file by hand, it was easer to do-
sed 's/lalt/meta/g' us.iso.kbd > local.kbd
Gotta utilize those UNIX tools!
Thanks a lot
Thaddeus
At 2003-01-30T04:44:52Z, "Thaddeus J. Quintin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any reason
> why I shouldn't do that? Is there a better/different solution? Using ESC
> just doesn't cut it...
Are you using X? If so, is it 4.x? If so,
"Thaddeus J. Quintin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings-
> I've looked around in google and the FreeBSD archives and I've seen this
> question asked many times, but never found the answer.
>
> I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any
> reason why I shouldn't do that
On 2003-01-29 23:44, "Thaddeus J. Quintin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings-
> I've looked around in google and the FreeBSD archives and I've seen this
> question asked many times, but never found the answer.
>
> I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any
> reason why
In <01c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc>, Thaddeus J. Quintin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any
> reason why I shouldn't do that? Is there a better/different solution?
> Using ESC just doesn't cut it...
You're using Emacs, righ
