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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: [DEMACS] More keyboard problems with DEMACS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.182943.10499@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 18:29:43 GMT
- References: <Bz7xDE.A9u@optimla.aimla.com>
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- In article <Bz7xDE.A9u@optimla.aimla.com> walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt) writes:
- >
- > I posted a while ago about wierd problems with my keyboard under
- >DEMACS. Well, I found a way to make those problems go away, but I'll be
- >damned if I understand why. If I take \WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS out of my
- >CONFIG.SYS, the keyboard then acts normally!! I'm assuming that what is
- >happening is that DEMACS wants a flat address space, and some kind of DOS
- >brain-damaged "page everything into and out of a 16K spot in "high memory"
- >stuff" is hosing DEMACS.
-
- Demacs works fine on my machine with \WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS loaded. No keyboard
- problems whatsoever.
-
- >If there is another explanation that makes sense, feel free to let me know.
- >(Actually, since the application that I'm working on is showing some kind of
- >conflict also, PLEASE feel free to let me know what might be happening here.)
-
- Since you did not post a complete copy of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
- files, it is difficult to determine in your configuration what might be your
- problem.
-
- > Now, however, I have a new problem. My <ALT> key no longer functions
- >as a Meta key. Before removing HIMEM.SYS, I could get <ALT> to set a Meta
- >bit, just like it's supposed to. Now no way. I'm afraid I've been using Emacs
- >on real keyboards/machines way too long to go back to using <ESC><key>. Does
- >anyone know how I can get my Meta key back?
-
- Do you have some other memory manager loaded? Sounds like you have something
- else loaded that interferes with HIMEM.SYS and Demacs. Or you have a keyboard
- bios that isn't truly compatible.
-
- >(And while I'm at it, does anyone have a TSR or something to swap the
- >&^%$%#(* CAPS LOCK key and the <CTRL> key to the spaces God meant for them to
- >occupy?)
-
- There is a TSR packaged as keyfix.zip (or something like that) which should be
- available just about everywhere. It does what you want.
-
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