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From: mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: 1.2 keymap woes
Message-ID: <3741@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 00:35:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  4 00:35:13 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Aug-86 06:27:39 EDT
Reply-To: mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas 78712
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Keywords: 1.2 kickstart keymap

[From strawberries under torture one can learn many things]

Can someone explain what's going on with the default keymap under 1.2?

A registered developer friend of mine let me play with his official
1.2 Beta 4 diskettes last weekend.   I liked the new Path command
and the font editor, but I got a nasty surprise when I fired up
MicroEmacs (the PD version, not Commodore's) and tried to use the
ALT key as the META qualifier.

In 1.1, holding down the ALT key and then pressing an 'A' (ASCII 65)
would result in the character code (65+128) being sent to the program
reading the keystroke.  In the case of MicroEmacs, this allows
you to invoke editor functions with one keystroke instead of two,
a feature I use quite a bit.

Sadly, this seems to have gone south under 1.2.  A number of keys have
gone dead, while others no longer produce the same character as they did
under 1.1.  I know that C-A has added support for foreign keyboards
in 1.2, but does this require the default keymap to be changed?  Can
I get it back somehow?


Mic Kaczmarczik
U.T. Austin Computation Center

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