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Re: 2nd Attempt: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?
- To: "Tiller, Jason" <jtiller at sjm dot com>,"'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: 2nd Attempt: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:16:41 -0500
At 06:12 PM 2/20/2001, Tiller, Jason wrote:
>So, I've confirmed that the right alt key (Alt Gr) doesn't generate
>META in Cygwin.
>
>However, I've been unable to find out exactly *how* to change the
>behavior of the Alt Gr key. All of the information I've found via
>'Net searches have involved using keymap or xmodmap or some other
>keyboard mapping tool. Is such a beast available for Cygwin? I get
>the impression from my reading that the key codes generated by the
>keyboard are hardcoded into the Cygwin DLL.
>
>BTW, there have been other discussions touching on this topic in
>recent years, but they've all centered on using Alt Gr to generate
>either standard bash characters ('$', '{', '[', etc.) on international
>keyboards or generate accented characters on U.S. keyboards. Like
>snowflakes, each discussion is unique, it seems. :)
Hm, would the use of bindings in bash be too simple an answer? Maybe that's
circular logic. I wonder...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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