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From: "Tiller, Jason" <jtiller AT sjm DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:52:01 -0800
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Hello, All, :)

After learning Emacs in some haste and lazily doing all of my <ctrl>- and
<alt>-key sequences with my left hand, I've been working towards a more
equal distribution of these keystrokes between both hands (pain is a great
motivator).  In doing so, I've discovered something odd in my Cygwin
installation of bash/readline:

I have a M$ Natural keyboard, and the *right* <alt> key is not recognized.
I would expect <alt>-b to move point to the start of the previous word; it
does so when I use the left <alt>-b, but when I use the right <alt>-b, I
just get the character "b" inserted.  This is really frustrating!  I'll note
that the right <ctrl> key works fine - it's just the right <alt> key that
seems dead.  Both <alt> keys work fine in NT Emacs.

I couldn't find anything in the archives specifically related to this, and I
don't know to debug this type of problem (termcap is beyond me).  My TERM is
set to 'cygwin'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

---Jason Tiller

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