From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200102051836.NAA18751@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] azerty [french] keyboard support
In-Reply-To: <20010205080554.EB3A6199F3@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Cc:
Date: Mon,  5 Feb 2001 13:36:57 -0500
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In article <20010205080554.EB3A6199F3@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>//I like the HHKB, except that it doesn't have a
>//builtin ``view'' key...
>
>not to be contrary, but i'm using one right now, and yes it does.

Not at all; this is great news.  I really like the HHKB, but I found it
a pain to use under Unix due to the need to hit ``fn'' to get arrow
keys and other such things.  Plan 9 promises to be a much more
habitable environment.

>it may depend on that sliding
>switch on the back - mine's all the way to the
>left, when viewed from a normal typing position.
>the two "diamond" keys are View and Un-View (uh,
>what's that called again?). the one on the right
>of the keyboard even reverses function with the
>shift key, in case you have the left one mapped
>to Fn or control or something.

Cool, I can dig it.

>it required a few lines in the kbtab* tables in
>kbd.c. those three lines represent my first
>contribution to the Plan 9 kernel, just after we
>got our HHKBs.

Rock and roll....  Too bad I can't plug my HHKB into my Thinkpad.  :-(

	- Dan C.