Whole other debate on keyboard mappings

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Thu Jun 6 16:01:52 UTC 2002


On Thursday 06 June 2002 08:24 am, Lex Spoon wrote:
> Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> is claimed by the 
authorities to have written:
> > > By the way, I note that on my UNIX box,
> > > copy/cut/paste are Alt-c, Alt-x, Alt-v.
> > > It would be *extremely* confusing if they became Ctrl-c,
> > > Ctrl-x, Ctrl-v in Squeak.
> >
> > Surely this is all something that should be tackled im the image
> > with a sensibly configurable keymap
>
> A couple of people are suggesting this, but let me disagree here.
> First, images should remain portable -- let's not end image
> portability just to have different key mappings.  I'd hate to
> download a windows image from someone and have it use control
> instead of alt.  Second, this is trivial to do in the VM: the VM's
> already have a mapping from keys to Squeak modifiers, and we can
> easily set those mappings to anything we like.

I posted a patch to the Unix VM that would do this, and it met with 
little or no (or even negative) interest.

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