Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key
Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key
- Subject: Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:24:53 -0800
>> Ambrose, you're confusing this with the old meta-vs.-ISO8859/1 issue, which
>> died with Unicode. And in any case, Alt has always been the "alternate
>> character set" key in every environment I've used that had multiple
>> shift-type keys. (I'm specifically thinking of Solaris here, but it also
>> applies to Linux and OSX in my experience. Generic PC keyboards are more
>> difficult, as the Windows key has been co-opted for meta in PC-based Linux
>> but in Windows and with 101-key keyboards Alt has to serve double duty.)
>
> I can't see how this is a meta-vs-ISO8859-1 issue. It was because in
> old text-type terminals, this (setting the 8th bit) was just how the
> Meta key used to work. In the old days ISO8859-1 was not even the
> standard.
>
> I would personally agree that Alt *ought* to be an alternate character
> set key. Except that it was not in DOS, nor in Windows.
Well we're discussing X11 and OS X here, both of which are not (directly) hindered by that handicap.
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| | >xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: "James K. Lowden" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Richard Cobbe <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Ambrose LI <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Ambrose LI <email@hidden>) |