Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!trillium!swklassen From: swklassen@trillium.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: vt103 emulation standards suggested for the 8-bitters... Message-ID: <6343@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 12 Apr 88 13:04:06 GMT References: <19880406174601.5.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <8804061912=AA04304@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: swklassen@trillium.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 45 In article <8804061912=AA04304@mitre-bedford.ARPA> jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes: >However, I would like to lobby for a more user-friendly implementation >than that described in the Version 3.3 kermit65 documentation. > >What is so nice about the OmniCom implementation is that just about >everything is mapped isomorphically in a geometric sense -- the >keypad layout is a 4-by-4 pad made up of > > > 1 2 3 4 > q w e r > a s d f > z x c v b n (v=ENTER, b=0 and n=.) > How about the arangement: 7 8 9 7 8 9 u i o ==> 4 5 6 j k l 1 2 3 m , . 0 , . to make a numeric keypad similar to most computers out there? > >David then enhanced the keypad operation by going to the convention that >pressing the SELECT key and holding it down turned on keypad mode for those >keys. Why not use a SELECT+key to toggle keypad on and SELECT+key to toggle it off again? Then you do not have to use one hand for the SELECT key and you can use the keypad with whatever hand you desire. >Of course >key macro definitions per se are pretty flexible anyway In fact, if you did >nothing more than add macro definition capability, and used SELECT to define >the whole keyboard as a new character set, then of course one could define the >keypad anyway he/she wanted to... Perhaps use SELECT+a couple of keys to allow the user to have more than one keyboard definition. SELECT+key1 turns on definition 1, SELECT+key2 turns on definition 2, etc. SELECT by itself could turn off all keyboard definitions and return to normal. Steven W. Klassen Computer Science Major University of Waterloo