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From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Dvorak
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I've clearly learned a bit over the years.  I had a keyboard with the
keys in the wrong place.  I wrote a program that mounted on top of
/dev/cons and just did swapping.  I'll try to dig it up.  Having
/n/dump is great but only if you can remember sort of what the
file was called.

If you need to see up/down events, you have to rewrite kbd.c

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> By the way, I'm a Dvorak user and therefore it is difficult to study
> Plan 9 with ordinary qwerty layout. How can I remap the layout to Drova=
k?

I haven't checked out the new system, but unless they added some of
forsythe's hacks you may have to do some work to get a qwerty->dvorak
mapping to work.  I'm curious why one can't just buy a keyboard mapped
to dvorak already?

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Date:    Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:55:43 -0400
From:    cort@cs.nmt.edu (Cort)
To:      9fans
Subject: dvorak keyboard layout

Is there a way to swap keys around to emulate a dvorak keyboard with a
normal one?  I couldn't find anything in the man pages of documentation I
have.

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Date:    Mon, 25 Sep 1995 21:57:49 -0400
From:    presotto@plan9.att.com
To:      9fans
Subject: re: dvorak keyboard layout

Nope, hack kbd.c.

------- Message 3

Date:    Tue, 26 Sep 1995 06:15:06 -0400
From:    forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
To:      9fans@cs.psu.edu
Subject: keyboard layout

>>Is there a way to swap keys around to emulate a dvorak keyboard with a
>>normal one?

i've got small changes to kbd.c and a rudimentary #=CE=BA device that exp=
orts
a kbmap file.  you can echo things to it to change some of the maps.
i haven't yet defined a sensible interface between it and kbd.c;
currently it is PC only, but that should change.
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