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* Re: [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
@ 2001-10-15  6:33 rsc
  2001-10-15  6:50 ` Skip Tavakkolian
  2001-10-17  8:51 ` David Rubin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: rsc @ 2001-10-15  6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> I'm not able to use the keyboard(6) sequences in drawterm. What's the trick?

Alt is a separate keystroke not a modifier.
"Press down alt, let go of alt, type : )"
Not "press down alt, type : ), let go of alt".

Plan 9 doesn't care but drawterm does (because of
the way the underlying platforms handle things).



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* Re: [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
  2001-10-15  6:33 [9fans] Drawterm keyboard rsc
@ 2001-10-15  6:50 ` Skip Tavakkolian
  2001-10-17  8:51 ` David Rubin
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2001-10-15  6:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans, 9fans

Thanks, it works ☺

At 02:33 AM 10/15/2001 -0400, rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>> I'm not able to use the keyboard(6) sequences in drawterm. What's the
trick?
>
>Alt is a separate keystroke not a modifier.
>"Press down alt, let go of alt, type : )"
>Not "press down alt, type : ), let go of alt".
>
>Plan 9 doesn't care but drawterm does (because of
>the way the underlying platforms handle things).
>
>


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* Re: [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
  2001-10-15  6:33 [9fans] Drawterm keyboard rsc
  2001-10-15  6:50 ` Skip Tavakkolian
@ 2001-10-17  8:51 ` David Rubin
  2001-10-17  9:38   ` Axel Belinfante
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Rubin @ 2001-10-17  8:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm not able to use the keyboard(6) sequences in drawterm. What's the trick?
> 
> Alt is a separate keystroke not a modifier.
> "Press down alt, let go of alt, type : )"
> Not "press down alt, type : ), let go of alt".
> 
> Plan 9 doesn't care but drawterm does (because of
> the way the underlying platforms handle things).

Linux drawterm does not seem to make this distinction: Atl-: ) works
just as well as Alt : )

	david

-- 
If 91 were prime, it would be a counterexample to your conjecture.
    -- Bruce Wheeler


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* Re: [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
  2001-10-17  8:51 ` David Rubin
@ 2001-10-17  9:38   ` Axel Belinfante
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Axel Belinfante @ 2001-10-17  9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

david <dlrubin@hotmail.com>: 
> rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not able to use the keyboard(6) sequences in drawterm.
> > > What's the trick?
> > 
> > Alt is a separate keystroke not a modifier.
> > "Press down alt, let go of alt, type : )"
> > Not "press down alt, type : ), let go of alt".
> > 
> > Plan 9 doesn't care but drawterm does (because of
> > the way the underlying platforms handle things).
> 
> Linux drawterm does not seem to make this distinction: Atl-: ) works
> just as well as Alt : )

solaris drawterm seems to work like the linux one in this respect.

Axel.



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* Re: [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
@ 2001-10-17 18:19 Russ Cox
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2001-10-17 18:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I think the separate alt only matters on Windows.
Windows grabs Alt-char way early and tries to
process it as bringing down a menu or some
other shortcut.  There's probably a way around it,
but I don't know what it is.

Russ



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* [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
@ 2001-10-15  6:43 Skip Tavakkolian
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2001-10-15  6:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I'm not able to use the keyboard(6) sequences in drawterm. What's the trick?



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