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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:53:00 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Dave Andersen <angio@angio.net>
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: possible sc0 problem
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On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 07:39:24PM -0600, Dave Andersen wrote:
>
>> Now if you want to argue this from a *precedent* vs POLA perspective
>> then I'll give LALT full marks for precedence.  If a compromise could
>> be reached which would leave this as META for us emacs users (and
>> trust me, LALT is *the* key we need it to be - nothing else is
>> situated as well on the keyboard as a modifier) let still act the same
>> when mated with a function key, I'd be all for it.
>
>    Have we just stumbled upon the perfect remapping of the
> FreeBSD-logo key?  (Er, the one that some people in washington
> prefer to incorrectly think of as a start-menu key)?

Good idea, but many keyboards (including mine) don't have it.

Greg