RightAlt Key behaviour (was: Bug in "Edit")

Hi,

Just one thing: for a long time, some people believed that this is a bug 
on xkeyb, but it proved to be a bug in Edit.

Along the same lines, I have been made this request as a possible with 
for xkeyb: make RightAlt behave "as leftAlt", or as I understood, making 
RightAlt behave as LeftAlt, as (I was told) happens in US style keyboards.
I don't quite understand what I am being requested, I think the idea is 
that one could trigger the menus by pressing RightAlt+F, not only 
LeftAlt+F. Bearing in mind that this would automatically disable the 
"third character in a key" feature, I can't get what I am supposed to 
do. As I understand it, if a program wants to check the Alt-pressing 
status, it would look in the appropriate BIOS variables (0040h:0017h, 
0040h:0096h, etc), so as I see it, there's nothing I can do about this, 
unless this means that my int9h has to cheat BIOS and tell that LeftAlt 
was pressed whenever RightAlt was pressed...

Any ideas?

Aitor

Andreas K. Foerster wrote:

>Hi,
>
>there's a Bug in Edit:
>I have a german keyboard layout (GR). In Edit I can't access 
>characters that need a key-combination with the "Alt Gr"-key.
>For example, I cannot get the Backslash (\) or the pipe symbol (|).
>And they are important to edit the configuration files.
>
>Now I use Notepad for editing them - but that's not in the base set.
>