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

Hello Andreas,
wie geht es Ihnen?

I know what you mean, but there *is* a way to use <AltGr> under EDIT.COM.

I have that problem myself because the brazilian keyboard provides 10 keys
with a 3rd character.

Now, let me focus on the german keyboard and pick the <ß> key, for example:

1) Press <AltGr> + <ß>. If EDIT.COM selects a menu, don't worry.
2) Press <AltGr> alone and release it. EDIT.COM will unselect the menu.
3) Press <ß> alone. The backslash should be echoed.

Regards,
Henrique


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aitor Santamaria Merino" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: RightAlt Key behaviour (was: [fd-dev] 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.
> >
>
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