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Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration



I assume you here are referring to the backspace problem?  I think it
wouldn't hurt to either ask Linus to fix it or give him a patch to fix
it ourselves.  Anybody here know how to patch the kernel?

Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> writes:

> Hi John,
> 
> Pardon me for buying into this.
> 
> It seems to me - a newcomer to Linux - that this problem has to be fixed
> for once and for all.  I noted recently that Linus admitted it as one of
> his mistakes.
> 
> Could we not approach Linus with a request that it be fixed regardless of
> what it does to backward compatibility?  In a year's time the problem will
> then have pretty well gone away.
> 
> Lindsay
> 
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> 
> On 19 Jul 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> > Just for the record, several problems:
> > 
> >  * Backspace *still* doesn't work where it should.
> >  * XEmacs refuses to recognize Alt as Meta.
> >  * Delete rarely works anywhere.
> > 
> > 
> > Yann Dirson <dwitch@bylbo.debian.novare.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi all of you...
> > > 
> > > I've just been reading this (quite old for now) thread. What's the
> > > status of the discussion now ? Has there been some new feeback from
> > > other groups ?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Yann Dirson <dirson@univ-mlv.fr>
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> > > 
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