Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:18:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Rob Austein <sra@epilogue.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons keymap "us.emacs.kbd" Message-ID: <19980801121819.V11960@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808010206.UAA19168@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 08:06:33PM -0600 References: <19980801010719Z23162-213%2B67@thrintun.epilogue.com> <199807311557.JAA14350@harmony.village.org> <19980731042314Z23162-213%2B60@thrintun.epilogue.com> <19980801010719Z23162-213%2B67@thrintun.epilogue.com> <199808010206.UAA19168@harmony.village.org>
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On Friday, 31 July 1998 at 20:06:33 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19980801010719Z23162-213+67@thrintun.epilogue.com> Rob Austein writes: > : Primarily the meta bit support (ALT key turns on the most significant > : bit for most character codes, which isn't in the version of > : us.unix.kbd that I just downloaded via cvsweb). Secondarily, a > : different set of remappings to the standard keyboard layout > : (us.unix.kbd seems to remap a lot of the auxiliary keys, eg, it remaps > : my escape key to be `~). > > OK. Sounds like a very different keymap. us.unix.kbd is intended to > mimic the "traditional" layout of keyboards found in the unix world > where the escape key is just above the tab key, the <- key generates > DEL and the control key is immediately under the Tab key. > > I can't see any reason not to commit your keymap. What's the take of > others on the list? OK, I've finally tried it (I don't normally use syscons). Yes, it does what I expect. I vote to have it committed. About the only question I have is: what does the standard keymap do that this one doesn't? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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