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- From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
- Subject: Re: How to use the ALT-key to produce 8-Bit Chars in xterm (X11R4)
- In-Reply-To: sledge@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de's message of 15 Dec 92 19:56:39 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:36:09 GMT
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- >>>>> On 15 Dec 92 19:56:39 GMT, sledge@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Bueschgens) said:
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- TB> Hi out there,
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- TB> after using pcomm as my favorite terminal-program I'm a bit angry
- TB> about that damned CTRL-A -Key, because Bash and Emacs like this
- TB> thing, too.
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- TB> So I just got myself a patch for Pcomm to understand 8-bit chars.
- TB> So far, so good. With no X running, means using plain text,
- TB> everything works fine for me after I patched my german.map to
- TB> produce a value of 225 with ALT-A, wich is something I call a
- TB> 8-bit char. With plain text, this works fine for pcomm, and I can
- TB> use my CTRL-A for emacs and bash again. But how to set up my
- TB> X/xterm/stty/or_what_ever_you_think_it_may_be ??? There must be a
- TB> way to do this, right??
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- One solution would be to switch to Seyon, an X-based comm program.
- Seyon doesn't use an escape character, is 8-bit-clean (unless you
- choose a 7-bit mask), and can even 'trick' remote hosts that cannot
- handle 8-bit charactres into understanding the ALT key by translating
- it into an ESC followed by the key press, so you can use ALT as the
- meta key in Emacs and tcsh.
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- --
- /M. Saggaf
- alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu
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