Hi Aitor, I would assume that right alt DELIBERATELY does not act like a generic ALT key in EDIT: In German, for example, you need that right "Alt Gr" key for some accented characters, so it must not act as a function shift key. I remember not being able to use some other editor exactly because it treated any ALT like ALT, making me unable to type "@" because it wanted to treat it like "ALT-Q" or "ALT-@" with a special meaning for the ALT status instead of as an ordinary character. Maybe it would be useful to make this configurable in EDIT, but in a minimalist way, for example a checkbox whether R-ALT counts as ALT (for hotkeys) or is not to be interfered with. Regards, Eric
Hello, Sounds like it could be a bug in Edit, I'll see about it when I have a little time. Now for the original question: is it possible to make R-Alt work like L-Alt? It should be possible to do that with FD-KEYB.The idea is to intercept Right-Alt and then emit Left-Alt, and get back to the BIOS driver. This trick is unlikely lo work in a pre-AT-class machines, but in this older machines, you can try and run FD-KEYB with the /9 and see if it works. The trick is like this: R-Alt is an E0-prefixed L-Alt, so you should define a new plane for the E0: [PLANES] ... ... E0 Then, make a new mappings sections that would just catch the R-Alt and emit a L-Alt (the scancode for Alt is 38h = 56 [KEYS:ralt] 56 56/#0 Finally, add this new mapping to your Submappings section, at the end, so that it works as a fallback for the other cases (change the codepage for whatever you desire): [Submappings] ... ... 437 ralt If someone wants to give it a try and works, let me know, should be interesting stuff. You can apply the same trick to make "extended" keys work as non-extended. Aitor
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