Hi, My sincere apologies for posting a FreeBSD question in the Linux list. I am faced with this keyboard related problem. I am unable to get my ALT key working as the META key in bash. So when I press ALT-B, I get a B printed instead of the cursor moving backward by a word. And I have to use the escape key as the META key ie,. ESC-B instead of ALT-B. I tried putting several settings in my ~/.inputrc file so that readline respects my ALT key.
But nothing happened. I have tried disabling the terminal's stripping of the 8th bit of the input characters and still nothing. I tried stty -istrip but still nothing. I have rampaged the net but I couldn't come up with any stuff that's helpful. I have a Win keyboard with 105 keys and I am using FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE with bash-2.05a. I'll be very grateful if you guys can help me out with this problem. Thanks a lot in advance. Regards, Sanjay. P.S. A lots of thanks to Siddhartha Basu for letting me try my hands on an absolute beauty like FreeBSD. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
