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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] capslock -> control key mapping
- Date: 11 Nov 92 11:59:36 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 45
- Distribution: comp
- Message-ID: <veit.721483176@du9ds3>
- References: <JKH.92Nov10142605@esel.lotus.com>
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
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-
- In <JKH.92Nov10142605@esel.lotus.com> jkh@esel.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard) writes:
-
- >This is a very small patch, though it saves me numerous hairs pulled
- >out. To use it, apply the patch, set 'option "CAPS_LOCK_CTL"' in your
- >kernel config file and remake/boot a new kernel. Your caps lock key will
- >then become your control key. Note that this will *not* affect your
- >key settings in X! To do that, you'll need to use xmodmap to achieve
- >the same effect (very easily done, fortunately).
-
- > Jordan
-
-
- >*** /usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386/isa/pccons.c.pl3 Fri Nov 6 18:48:09 1992
- >--- /usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386/isa/pccons.c Tue Nov 10 15:18:41 1992
- >***************
- >*** 1205,1211 ****
- >--- 1208,1218 ----
- > KP, "*", "*", "*", /* 55 kp * */
- > ALT, "", "", "", /* 56 alt */
- > ASCII, " ", " ", " ", /* 57 space */
- >+ #ifdef CAPS_LOCK_CTL
- >+ CTL, "", "", "", /* 58 ctl */
- >+ #else
- > CAPS, "", "", "", /* 58 caps */
- >+ #endif
- > FUNC, "\033[M", "\033[Y", "\033[k", /* 59 f1 */
- > FUNC, "\033[N", "\033[Z", "\033[l", /* 60 f2 */
- > FUNC, "\033[O", "\033[a", "\033[m", /* 61 f3 */
-
- > PCS Computer Systeme GmbH, Munich, West Germany
- > UUCP: pyramid!pcsbst!gj gj@meepmeep.pcs.com
- > EUNET: unido!pcsbst!gj
-
- This patch is obsolete with codriver (aka keycap-0.1.1.tar.Z), it has been
- obsolete since the first days of the 0.1.0 version and Helmut Michaelis'
- vgadrv. Don't mess around with the internal keyboard tables just to get
- some special behavior; it is highly nonportable.
-
- Holger
-
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