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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>,
        "Tiller, Jason"
	 <jtiller AT sjm DOT com>,
        "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: 2nd Attempt: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:50:52 +0100
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On non-US keyboards, like my German one, right Alt is AltGr,
used to shift triple-occupied keys like "<>|" or "8(["!

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [SMTP:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 20, 2001 22:27
> To:	Tiller, Jason; 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject:	Re: 2nd Attempt: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?
> 
> At 04:18 PM 2/20/2001, Tiller, Jason wrote:
> > > 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!
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry, I still have no idea.
> 
> 
> 
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