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 ?
> > >
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