On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:24:22PM +0100, Erika Pacholleck wrote: > [26.02.02 21:27 +0100] Radovan Garabik <-- :
> > > > before Alt, there was Meta... > > Hehe, wasn't that one beginning: Once upon a time long before Alt, ... > So when the first keyboards were made we really had a key which had > printed Meta on it, and later people thought Meta is not understandable, > so we print Alt on the key (so to say, this is a key which will assign > totally alternate/different meaning to the second key which I press with > it), correct? exactly > > If Meta prefixes a character with ESC this would mean that for example > ESC ( K would be equal to Meta_parenright K and if I have a line > alt keycode 9 = Meta_parenright (Meta_ = ESC prefix in front of) > then typing [Alt]+[(] [k] should do G0 to userdefined ? yes something like that > > > Nice thing is that Meta can be replaced with pressing ESC erm, here should have been a linebreak. > > Alt, to give the keys _yet another_ control function. > > That's now really too high for me, if I press the [Esc] key I expect > it to send ESC (0x1b ^[) which is a single action and [Alt] would be > pressed alone and it does not do anything. And if I press [Alt]+[Esc] > the alt part would prefix the next with escape, so it would result in > ESC ESC equal to Meta_Escape -- ifff all my above understanding was > correct. if alt_is_meta then yes. alt should not be meta, however, if it can be achieved. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
