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Re: 2nd Attempt: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?


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...


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