CLISP keyboard problem (Alt-Gr)

[proton]

I am new to CLISP. I don't use EMACS and I probably wouldn't know how
to install it. I have two left hands and my dog knows more about
configuring software than me.
Having given a bit of personal background information, here is my
problem:
I run CLISP (version 5, build 2195) on a Windows 2000 machine with a
German keyboard and I can't enter characters with an Alt-gr
combination. The keyboard seems to be well configured, because I get
all the keys correctly, including those which are not in the usual
position (e.g. the Z and the Y are exchanged). The only ones which do
not respond are those that require the Alt-Gr key (such as the "#" and
the "\").
Does anyone have a tip on how to solve this?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[alessi...@gmail.com]

> I am new to CLISP. I don't use EMACS and I probably wouldn't know how
> to install it. I have two left hands and my dog knows more about
> configuring software than me.

It's not difficult to install emacs + slime on windows. I advise you
to spend a little time installing and configuring it, you would learn
some things and get to have a really cool development environment. If
you're lazy there are packages such as lisp in a box which come
preconfigured with emacs and clisp; I don't know how up-to-date are
they, though. Anyway,

> Having given a bit of personal background information, here is my
> problem:
> I run CLISP (version 5, build 2195) on a Windows 2000 machine with a
> German keyboard and I can't enter characters with an Alt-gr
> combination. The keyboard seems to be well configured, because I get
> all the keys correctly, including those which are not in the usual
> position (e.g. the Z and the Y are exchanged). The only ones which do
> not respond are those that require the Alt-Gr key (such as the "#" and
> the "\").
> Does anyone have a tip on how to solve this?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.

I have the same problem, and... it's even worse than that, since not
only you can't type certain characters; you can't even copy-paste them
to the clisp repl, so there's no way to input them to clisp! For me
(Italian keyboard) forbidden characters include the sharp sign # and
the backquote operator... this problem is annoying but since I use
LispWorks as my primary development platform on win32, and even when
using clisp I mostly use it under slime, it doesn't bother me much.
Still, it might be a good idea to write to the clisp maintainers... I
remember older versions of win32 clisp didn't have this problem.

[Bzoto]

I had the same problem with an Italian keyboard. You probably should
try the "mingw-without-readline" version - on my pc it works.