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2nd Attempt: ReadLine not recognizing right <Alt> key?


> Hello, All, :)
> 
> After learning Emacs in some haste and lazily doing all of my <ctrl>- and
> <alt>-key sequences with my left hand, I've been working towards a more
> equal distribution of these keystrokes between both hands (pain is a great
> motivator).  In doing so, I've discovered something odd in my Cygwin
> installation of bash/readline:
> 
> I have a M$ Natural keyboard, and the *right* <alt> key is not recognized.
> I would expect <alt>-b to move point to the start of the previous word; it
> does so when I use the left <alt>-b, but when I use the right <alt>-b, I
> just get the character "b" inserted.  This is really frustrating!  I'll
> note that the right <ctrl> key works fine - it's just the right <alt> key
> that seems dead.  Both <alt> keys work fine in NT Emacs.
> 
> I couldn't find anything in the archives specifically related to this, and
> I don't know to debug this type of problem (termcap is beyond me).  My
> TERM is set to 'cygwin'.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> ---Jason Tiller

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