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Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:38:03 +0200
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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.