At 20:40 Uhr +0100 13.02.1998, Colin Wood wrote:
>Hauke Fath wrote:

>> <rant>
>> This "convenience" option <opt>-{1,2,3} has badly broken support for int'l
>> keyboard mapping, as i pointed out in port-mac68k/4929.
>
>Ah, I'll have to look at that.  I've been thinking of rewriting the
>front-end to the ADB bus

That's good to hear. =8)

>> Sorry to come on so strong, but it was a major PITA to spend an evening
>> hacking out a correct German kbd layout just to find out that some ignorant
>> US citizen had "recycled" important keys for "other things".  ;)
>
>Actually, I think that Ken is Japanese, but.... :-)

It wasn't Ken. PR#3887 that suggested (ab)using <opt>-{1,2,3} for mouse
button emulation was from SUNAGAWA Keiki. (Order? I simply copied the name
from the PR text...)

>> I couldn't even send-pr from the box because the "@" was missing!
>
>Doh!  Well, fortunately, you can probably use the web page, I think.

What I did in the end was exporting the send-pr template to MacOS and send
it from Eudora...

	hauke



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