From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt + Shift combinations not working in the linux console Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:27 +0100 Organization: Guest of Firstream - Teaser - Oreka Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073689385 18275 80.91.224.253 (9 Jan 2004 23:03:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 10 00:03:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af5ef-0003yM-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:03:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Af6LG-0004PK-QN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:47:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!teaser.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d32-145.ppp.teaser.fr Original-X-Trace: feed.teaser.net 1073688040 26018 213.91.32.145 (9 Jan 2004 22:40:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teaser.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:40:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119943 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15875 Martin Rydstr|m wrote: > joao writes: > >>Any idea where I can fix this ? > > > Yeah. This is a problem with the keymap under VC:s not being > "complete" enough. Stuff to use to fix: loadkeys, dumpkeys. Yo. Thanks, Martin, that was it. Dumpkeys showed me the current keycode to symbol mapping, it was easy to see that the Shift + Alt mappings are missing entirely, and also that the simple Ctrl and Alt mappings are all wrong. Apparently, this was originally a QWERTY map, where somebody only bothered to fix the plain case plus the Shift one... so now I know what I have to do, redo the entire map, fix Ctrl and Alt, add Shift+Ctrl, Shift+Alt, Ctrl+AltGr, Alt+AltGr, ... I'll post the result to some french newsgroup as a possible french keyboard mapping. It's interesting to see how demanding emacs is, in terms of key combinations :-) Thanks everybody for the help. Joao -- joao at teaser dot fr