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From: andy@amiga.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.2 keymap woes
Message-ID: <1470@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 10:09:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1470
Posted: Wed Aug  6 10:09:34 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 03:28:46 EDT
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Reply-To: andy@skipper.UUCP (andy finkel)
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Keywords: 1.2 kickstart keymap

<Who's afraid of the line eater, anyway ?>
In article <3741@ut-ngp.UUCP> mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes:
>
>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.
>
>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

"A number of keys have gone dead" is an amazingly accurate description
of what happened...we added support for dead keys, for foreign language
support.  We did realize that some software would believe that the
ALT keycodes would be fixed, however (foolish software!) and, on the
real 1.2 Workbench disk we have placed a usa0 keymap, just like the
one in V1.1.  (called via the setmap command)

			andy
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