On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, M.R. Zucca wrote:

> Hehe. Looks like dt or X to the rescue. I always wondered why we don't use
> the code similar dt for both the console and the keyboard. Sure, it's a little
> more memory hungry but it's certainly more flexible and much faster.
> International keyboards? No problem, just compile a kernel with the right
> keymap...maybe someday. :)

Flexible keymaps are a Good Thing(TM). I tweaked the default US
keymappings and a bit of the keyboard code in dt to map all those extra
keys on my Apple Extended Keyboard to useful things. I've mapped page up,
page down, home, end, etc to the proper Pine/Pico control keys and let
the function keys do more than simply output a string of text from
.dtrc (like putting cut, copy, and paste where they belong on F2-F4, and
letting F5-F8 switch between virtual consoles).

It would be great if some of this could be built into the kernel (which is
not to say that I don't love dt!).

-Isaac

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Isaac Salpeter
the ticalc.org project
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