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From: tvz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Those Damn Keyboards
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Date: 8 Feb 91 14:52:32 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.050647.19715@menudo.uh.edu> davison@menudo.uh.edu (Dan Davison) writes:
>
>>   During this transition period, you may recommend to the UNIX folk that
>>   they remap their keyboard.  In the developer directory, there is an
>>   application called Keyboard which allows anyone to remap the keyboard.
>
>Anyone tried this? It doesn't work. (2.0)
>

The Keyboard demo works fine for me. What it doesn't do you can do by 
editing the keymapping files directly (the format is mildly intelligible).
(See, for example, <10839@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> by 
carlton@aldebaran.berkeley.edu. on remapping SPACE-DEL).

The problem is that there aren't many other keys to spare. I don't like
to use alt keys because I prefer to use the alt key as the meta key, and 
besides, the alt key takes longer to get to than, say the shift or control
key. So I have mapped \ to ^], ` to ^[, ~ to ^-, and | to SHIFT-DEL. Remapping
control keys is not so popular, but I
still have the original values of these control keys as SHIFT-CTRL- ,
and I never use them anyway. The backspace usually generated by SHIFT-DEL
is available as ^h.

Unfortunately, you cannot assign values to  ^;  ^'  ^,  ^.  or ^/  .