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From: David Rubin <dlrubin@hotmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm keyboard
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:51:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCC80DF.9F225CAC@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011015063352.9BD4719AAF@mail.cse.psu.edu>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-17  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-15  6:33 rsc
2001-10-15  6:50 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-17  8:51 ` David Rubin [this message]
2001-10-17  9:38   ` Axel Belinfante
2001-10-15  6:43 Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-17 18:19 Russ Cox

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