From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 23: 7:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC87137BBC6; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:07:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA14905; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:37:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:37:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens , j mckitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Keyboard layouts (was: editors question #2) Message-ID: <20000817153725.T40492@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000126095411.B43103@freebie.lemis.com> <20000815142645.A37927@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000816200136.C254@parish> <20000817113209.A2065@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000817113209.A2065@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:32:09AM +0530 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at 11:32:09 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Mark Ovens said on Aug 16, 2000 at 20:01:36: >> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:26:45PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:54:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> The difference with Emacs is that you don't just use the shift key, >>>> you also use the control and meta keys. This may take a little >>>> getting used to (especially if you're using the standard broken >>>> keyboard layout that replaces control with CapsLock), but if you have >>> >>> Where are ctrl and caps-lock *supposed* to be? >>> >> >> Where do you want them to be? :) The traditional Unix locations are >> the opposite to a std PC keyboard, i.e. Ctrl next to 'A' and CapsLock >> below the LeftShift key. > > I remember the old PC-XT keyboards had them that way too. It changed > with the bigger PC-AT keyboards. Who's to blame for the change? > IBM? Possibly. > But now it's so standard I think there's little point in doing it > any other way. There's every point. The current positions are just plain bad. Ask everybody with carpal tunnel syndrome if he wouldn't prefer some better way. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message