Re: Keys in EE for Linux
- Posted by Neil & Lindsay Harvey <vk2bnh at GLOBALFREEWAY.COM.AU> Mar 18, 2000
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Daniel Johnson wrote: > Up until two minutes ago my escape key did not work in EE. I just patched > keys.e (in Irv's Linux EE obviously). > > Linux return alt characters as 27 followed by the character. > > If you press escape the following character is -1 apparently, meaning that > when you add 1000 (like Irv does) you get 999. > > By changing keys.e line 93 from > > 93: ESC = 1027 -- was 1000 > > to > > 93: ESC = 999 --was 1027 -- was 1000 > > escape works fine. This means I can get rid of menus and dialogs without > having to choose something which is nice. Do other people have the same > prob ? I'm using Debian 2.0 <SNIP> I have the same problem. Thanks for the bugfix. I use Mandrake 6.0 Neil Harvey