[wplug-bsd] keyboard behavior at console

[Brandon Kuczenski]

I'm using FreeBSD 4.11, currently from the console.  Usually I login over 
SSH but sometimes I use the console, and lately I've been using it more. 
I have started to notice that the keyboard doesn't behave the way I want 
it to at the console.  For one thing, the key repeat rate is far too slow. 
More important, the meta and ctrl keys don't work as expected: for 
example, when rnning emacs, if I press ctrl-H I get a backspace instead of 
the help prompt, and certain other ctrl keys don't work as expected or 
at all.  Also, pressing alt-<key> doesn't work (I have to use ESC <key>) 
and 'delete' deletes the character before point (like backspace) instead 
of the character at point.

I don't know exactly what governs this behavior, but I would like to make 
it work better.  Where can I fix this?

-Brandon