Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- Subject: Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:10:58 -0800
On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Ambrose Li wrote:
On 20/11/2007, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
I don't even use a French keyboard where this would be an absolutely
vital issue, because characters like \|[]{} cannot be typed without
the
Alt key acting as Mode_switch. I use an ("international") US
keyboard,
but I sometimes have to type accented characters or umlauts, and for
these I need Alt acting as Mode_switch.
Sometimes I really hoped that Quartz had never existed, and Apple
had chosen X11 as the foundation of OS X's GUI. This way we could
have changed keymappings using xmodmap, for example, or typed
Chinese using the superior scim system.
There's a nice explanation of why that didn't happen at http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75257&cid=6734612
, which I believe was written by one of the culprits.
I don't know that being able to change the OS X keyboard mapping with
xmodmap will ever happen, but getting 'scim' working somehow with the
OS X Input Method support (along with, for example, kinput2 for
Japanese) would be pretty neat.
Okay, really putting the computer away this time.
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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