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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] keymaps question. would this be acceptable for you all?
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:02:11 +0100
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> Regarding shift and control, the user driver already gets keys for shift-a
control-a.

you are assuming where 'a' is.  the scan codes [song] remain[s]  the same.

> is there any other thing I'm missing?

this not a simple problem.  so you want to default to some minimal
subset.  the keyboard is a nightmare.  i would propose some simple
gui-ish thing that used a ps2 style mosue, but then we are in vga hell.

so back up a bit.  if you can see what you're typing then you can correct
and let's _assume_ BS is where it should be or at that point BS and DEL
blow away chars.  so, no gui and using top level domains [two chars]
will give you a keyboard map, in general.

from there you can type.  all the world's not a QWERTY (sic) ...