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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:34:55 +0000
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rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes:

> > I have way more keys that ASCII has codes for.  How exactly should
> > that work?  X has a good way (even Lispms had a good way).
>
> Arbitrarily configurable does not imply good.
> It does usually imply more pain for users.

Arbitrarily configurable is usually wrong.  I don't mean that
everything about X is good.

Just that it has a notion of "keycode" and that's what a key sends,
rather than trying to force ASCII to do the job.

Thomas