How Do You Make Tilde-key Escape-key?

[JOHN B. KIM]

I would like to use the tilde/back-quote key as escape when I'm dialed
up to a unix box. I have Zterm and Microphone 1.7, neither of which
seems to let me do this. I have Apple Std Kbd II, which has the escape
key next to the space-bar.

What can I do?

Thanks.

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John Kim School, TV and my mother are entirely
responsible for what I wrote above.

[Stephen R Fleming]

You need to create an alternate kfil and drag it into your System
folder. Then you can select it with the Keyboard cdev (or the
Keyboard menu, if you turn that on).

It's a pretty simple piece of ResEdit hacking. Duplicate the "U.S."
kfil from the Finder, open it with ResEdit, and bump around until
you open the right resource. Then just drag the keys around and
save.

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[Hank Roberts]

Look at ftp.apple.com for some alternative keyboards including
a tilde-esc swap; an archie search archie -c keyboard
might turn them up; there were several possibilities there a while ago.

[Archie Cobbs]

There seemed to be two ways to do the esc-key tilde swap thing on a
powerbook. One is where you create a new keyboard which you can choose
from the keyboard (?) control panel. I did this first, but it didn't
completely work in all cases.

Then I found the "right" way to do it (both of these were on
ftp.apple.com) which is to modify three system resources called KMAP,
KCHR, and ROV# (the last means "ROM override"), as well as physically
swapping the keys.

If you look on ftp.apple.com hopefully you'll see something like this.

-Archie