* Re: libXg and caps lock on Sun type V keyboard under openwindows
@ 1993-07-21 21:52 pete
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From: pete @ 1993-07-21 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pete, schwartz; +Cc: 9fans, sam-fans
From schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu Wed Jul 21 13:47:07 0400 1993
[I said]
>| As far as I'm concerned this is only a minor irritant -- Caps Lock is
>| pointless anyway in these days of OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT DON'T REQUIRE
>| YOU TO SHOUT -- but I wondered if anyone else had noticed this bug-ette
>| and/or had a fix for it?
>It doesn't show up here, running MIT X11.
I tried re-linking against MIT X11R4 libraries rather than the Openwindows
ones, with the same result. I guess it's an Openwindows 2 server
``feature''. Sigh.
>In terms of shouting, if you use MODULA-3, encrusted as it is with
>upper case keywords, caps-lock is about the only alternative (and a
>poor one at that) to a context sensitive editor like emacs.
Hmmm.... I think if I was using sam to edit a language which required upper
case I'd knock together some sort of filter to do the capitalisation and
pipe the file through it before a write... that's what the '|' command is
there for! Couple of extra keystrokes perhaps (maybe only one if you're
using the keyboard extensions to sam) and it avoids the dreaded emacs...
pete
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* Re: libXg and caps lock on Sun type V keyboard under openwindows
1993-07-21 16:11 pete
@ 1993-07-21 17:47 ` Scott Schwartz
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From: Scott Schwartz @ 1993-07-21 17:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pete; +Cc: 9fans, sam-fans
| As far as I'm concerned this is only a minor irritant -- Caps Lock is
| pointless anyway in these days of OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT DON'T REQUIRE
| YOU TO SHOUT -- but I wondered if anyone else had noticed this bug-ette
| and/or had a fix for it?
It doesn't show up here, running MIT X11.
In terms of shouting, if you use MODULA-3, encrusted as it is with
upper case keywords, caps-lock is about the only alternative (and a
poor one at that) to a context sensitive editor like emacs.
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* libXg and caps lock on Sun type V keyboard under openwindows
@ 1993-07-21 16:11 pete
1993-07-21 17:47 ` Scott Schwartz
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From: pete @ 1993-07-21 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans, sam-fans
Not sure which of these lists (9fans or sam-fans) is more appropriate, but
here goes:
Running 9term or samterm under Openwindows (sparcstation elc; type 5
keyboard; openwindows 2; sunos 4.1.1) I find that the Caps Lock key is
interpreted as Shift Lock -- i.e. 123 comes out as !"# and so on. It looks
like a libXg bug to me...
As far as I'm concerned this is only a minor irritant -- Caps Lock is
pointless anyway in these days of OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT DON'T REQUIRE
YOU TO SHOUT -- but I wondered if anyone else had noticed this bug-ette
and/or had a fix for it?
pete
--
Peter Fenelon - Research Associate - High Integrity Systems Engineering Group,
Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD (+44/0)904 433388
pete@minster.york.ac.uk `Today keeps slipping by me, it leaves no aftertaste.'
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