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- From: rtor@ansa.co.uk (Owen Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Subject: Re: Alt-I in xmh (was: Help wanted )
- Message-ID: <9207231302.AA17419@yscydion.ansa.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 13:02:29 GMT
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- ffavata@estsa2.estec.esa.nl writes:
- > Trivial question: how do we poor fellows without an alt key on
- > the keyboard (take a DECstation, for example) generate Alt-I? Emacs is
- > haapy with ESC-I, but xmh apparently not!
-
- I have a DECstation 5000/200 with an LK201 keyboard, running ULTRIX 4.2.
- For most purposes, the 'Meta' key is the one labelled "Compose Character"
- to the left of the space bar. When this did not do the trick in xmh, I
- discovered that the key map needed to be fixed by the following command:
-
- xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Alt_L Meta_L"
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- The Meta/Alt key(s) always seems to be the one(s) next to the space bar. All
- the machines around here (DECstation, Suns 3&4, HPs various, even Xerox 1186s!)
- have the Meta key there even though it is labelled in strange ways.
-
- Owen.
-
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