On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:10:06PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Notebooks aren't the only keyboards which probably have some kind
> of "unusab^Wunusual" keyboard layout...
> I mean, surely the ideal solution for netbsd is the one which supports
> the largest set of existing keyboards, I don't know right now if Suns or 
> older DEC gear (with lk2xx/4xx keyboards) even have a scroll-lock key,
> while most have control and something like pgup/pgdown (sometimes labelled
> prev/next).  I mean, wscons doesn't run only on i386, or am I totally
> off the track with that assumption?  Ok, you could use a different key
> on systems which don't have the mf-II "scroll-lock" but then you also
> have to document this etc. and why make things differ among various
> systems when there isn't the need for it?

Excellent point. You can just imagine the NetBSD motto otherwise...
"Of course it runs NetBSD...but you'll have to learn 32 different
ways to scroll your terminal".

Regards
Nigel

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