On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:51:10PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 22-Oct-98, 17:41 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@liacs.nl> wrote: > > Looks like my roots are showing :). We could probably use Meta instead > > of Alt for X, but for a console interface we don't have a nice replacement. > > We could probably do what minicom does and use Ctrl-A is a modifier > > prefix. > > Is there anyway to keep Alt (in addition to Esc) for the console > interface? I work on enough other machines to know that it's a PCism, > but I would guess that the vast majority of Linux systems (and Debian > Linux systems) are on PCs. That's default.. Alt-key sends escape followed by the key you pressed. -- Show me the code or get out of my way.
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