On 2/4/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:18:56 +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: > > > My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can > > only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8 > > for example then the console changes from this: > > livecd root # > > To this: > > (arg: 8) > > And I don't know what this means. > > Is there anything I can do to get the alt-key working? > > This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too. > The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of > bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpage.
It is a readline function (see man readline). Try adding to ~/.inputrc: Meta-0: Meta-1: ... Meta-9: -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
