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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook
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On 2/4/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 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

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