On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:12:18PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:10:58PM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote:
This is a good idea, and I actually tried this a while ago, but there were some key combinations with caps-lock that my keyboard generated no events for. This is when I learned that in order to save space/materials/money, keyboards are constructed in such a way that there are quite a few key combinations between which the hardware can't tell the difference, since there is not a dedicated wire for each key.
I never cease to be amazed at these things. Who would have thought? I haven't found any such combinations yet, and hopefully I won't. I suspect not. back in '88 they probably wouldn't have thought to do that to a keyboard... I hope.
Ouch, I was wrong. I don't get ctrl-. (and maybe others) on this keyboard, it appears. In emacs, the key binding C-c C-. gets recognized as C-c . and further xev reports no difference between a '.' and 'C-.' :(. I tried it in a VT and it was even worse. 'C-.' did *nothing* at all... :( I wonder if that's a keyboard issue or some other issue in the keymaps. A