From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Bronnikov To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Russian keyboard In-Reply-To: <7bafaf05a72756470ae548c3ef5c77d2@plan9.escet.urjc.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:56:25 +0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5685aba-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote: > > One more thing is missing: you cannot create a new kbmap on > the > > fly, only modify an existing one. That should not be hard > to > > fix, though. > > What's the problem with that? > You can modify one of the maps that you're not going to use. Sure. But the (purely hypothetical) scenario I have in mind is when I find myself in a foreign environment (say on a campus in a US university) where the precompiled kernel has no support for alternative keyboards at all (why would it?). I propose that the default kernel contain either several (2-3) instances of us kbmap (so that one could tamper with the second or third), or (better, IMHO) one us kbmap and a way to add more. Of course, to cover your case, one could compile several different kbmaps into the kernel. Goga