Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:34:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: jimmy@mammothcheese.ca Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org> Subject: Re: us.emacs.kbd PR in limbo for 5 years! Message-ID: <87d4ktja6y.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <488A0C86.4000709@mammothcheese.ca> (James Bailie's message of "Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:25:26 -0400") References: <488A0C86.4000709@mammothcheese.ca>
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:25:26 -0400, James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca> wrote: > Folks, > > PR conf/59600 has been open now for five years. It attempts to correct > the broken arrow keys of the us.emacs.kbd keymap. > > When one installs FreeBSD, one is asked to choose a keymap early on in > the process, and choosing us.emacs.kbd will prevent installation from > proceeding, since both fdisk and sysinstall will not function > correctly with the broken key mappings. Also affected: kbdmap and > vidcontrol. > > I would like to fix this. Before I bother digging into this, I was > just wondering why the previous effort to fix this has stalled? > Anyone know? The most likely reason is that nobody was using `us.emacs.kbd' enough to test a fix. If you are using it and you are interested in making it work, then by all means feel free to troubleshoot this further :-) HTH, Giorgos
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