Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/27/19:40:58
Hi, Chris, :)
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:25:55PM -0800, Jason Tiller wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >Per the instructions on http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html, here is
> >the patch and ChangeLog entry for my minor changes to allow the
> >user to configure the right-side <alt> key (AltGr) to generate
> >Meta-prefixed characters as opposed to high-bit characters. This
> >is accomplished by a new CYGWIN environment variable option:
> >'right_alt_meta'. With this specified, AltGr generates Meta. The
> >default case or with 'noright_alt_meta' specified is to ignore
> >AltGr in the console handler.
> Actually, I have no problems with having both ALT keys generate a
> meta. I would rather not add to the plethora of CYGWIN options if
> we can help it.
I originally thought that this was the way to go, too, but in
researching the issue, I discovered that somewhere around B19 (I
think), the choice was made to *not* have AltGr generate Meta because
AltGr is used on international keyboards to generate the standard
shell characters, like '[]', '{}', etc., that are provided in
triple-overloaded keys. Ah, yes, here is the description of the issue
from the changes to B19 in the FAQ:
Alt Gr-key behavior has been changed in this release. The left
alt-key still produces ESC-key sequence. The right alt (Alt Gr)-key
now produces characters according to national keyboard layouts.
I think if you simply reverted AltGr to Meta again, international
users would be stuck having to make their own patches (as they did in
the past, I seem to recall reading) to generate shell characters.
If I've summarized this issue incorrectly, I hope some international
users will pipe up!
---Jason Tiller
jdtiller AT best DOT com
Sonos
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