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Martin F Krafft

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Aug 28, 2001, 4:17:17 AM8/28/01
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also sprach Arno (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:43:42AM -0700):
> Now, when I press the right Alt + " then a, I get =E4.

how? all i get when i press Alt + " (which is Alt + Shift + ') is a
double single quotation: ''. pressing the 'a' afterwards just yields
''a.

this is after creating the .Xmodmap file and reading it with xmodmap.

any clues?

martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
\____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck
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scattering petals to the ground.
segmentation fault.

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Andrew Perrin

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Aug 28, 2001, 9:30:47 AM8/28/01
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I ran the code below, and verified it was there with xmodmap -pm and
xmodmap -pke. In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the
beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all.

However.... interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works
great! Can someone inform this poor ignorant user as to what the
differences might be?

Thanks.

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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Arno wrote:

>
> > What do people do for this case?
>
> I'm using a US keyboard and I needed to have a "compose" key, thus I put
> this in .Xmodmap:
> keycode 113 = Multi_key
> clear mod3
> add mod3 = Multi_key
> The keycode 113 was discovered using xev and it maps to the right alt
> key on my keyboard. To see which modifier is available, type xmodmap -pm
> at your prompt.
> Now, when I press the right Alt + " then a, I get ä.

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