Re: M-<, M->, M-% ...

[Joel J. Adamson]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hi, Xavier,
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:00:38AM +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> What is the best way to invoke the above mentionned keys in the
>> linux console (I really mean the console, not a xterm) ?
>
> There are two things you need to do.  You need to enhance your keyboard
> layout to generate distinct codes for these keys (dumpkeys and loadkeys
> are your friends), and you need to tell Emacs how to interpret them.

I used
loadkeys emacs
dumpkeys > jkeys

Then I edited the file "jkeys."  Wherever I saw "AltGr" I changed it to
"Alt."  Then I gzipped the file, and loaded it with loadkeys.  This is
on Slackware 12.0.  Now I have right Alt working.

Joel

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