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

Hi Aitor,

> 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...

I don't know where the request comen from, but I can point that:

1) RightAlt was introduced lated (in AT) and can only be checked
independently with the extended interface. Both keys _should_ set
the same bit in the standard interface, but it has a few bug sometimes.

2) small keyboards don't _have_ a RightAlt. BUT some people write
sw believing that every machine is just like theirs and will never change.
If you have a sw that says RightAlt+Y and your keyboard just doesn't
have it? 

Alain