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From: neil@amiga.UUCP (Neil Katin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.2 keymap woes
Message-ID: <1469@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 18:25:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1469
Posted: Tue Aug  5 18:25:25 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Aug-86 06:15:58 EDT
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Reply-To: neil@rocky.UUCP (Neil Katin)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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Keywords: 1.2 kickstart keymap

In article <3741@ut-ngp.UUCP> mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes:
>[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
>
>ARPA:  mic@ngp.cc.utexas.edu
>UUCP:  ...!ihnp4!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mic

The 1.2 keymap has been changed to support foreign language characters.
However, as a gift to all you emacs users out there, the final 1.2
release disks have a new keymap called "usa0" in the keymap directory
that will make you keyboard behave just as it did in 1.1.  To use
it, say "setmap usa0".

You will need a 1.2 release disk to use this.

	Neil Katin