Re: 2nd Attempt: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 04:18 PM 2/20/2001, Tiller, Jason wrote:
> > Hello, All, :)
> > 
> > After learning Emacs in some haste and lazily doing all of my <ctrl>- and
> > <alt>-key sequences with my left hand, I've been working towards a more
> > equal distribution of these keystrokes between both hands (pain is a great
> > motivator).  In doing so, I've discovered something odd in my Cygwin
> > installation of bash/readline:
> > 
> > I have a M$ Natural keyboard, and the *right* <alt> key is not recognized.
> > I would expect <alt>-b to move point to the start of the previous word; it
> > does so when I use the left <alt>-b, but when I use the right <alt>-b, I
> > just get the character "b" inserted.  This is really frustrating!  I'll
> > note that the right <ctrl> key works fine - it's just the right <alt> key
> > that seems dead.  Both <alt> keys work fine in NT Emacs.
> > 
> > I couldn't find anything in the archives specifically related to this, and
> > I don't know to debug this type of problem (termcap is beyond me).  My
> > TERM is set to 'cygwin'.
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!



Sorry, I still have no idea.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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