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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:40:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980327203939.14324m-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199803272357.QAA06361@harmony.village.org>

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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Warner Losh wrote:

> 
> I've seen lots of requests for a sane "unix" keymap for PC keyboards
> from time to time.  I've created one that should do the trick for most
> people.  It is us.iso.kbd except:
> 	ESCAPE and `~ are swapped
> 	CTRL and CAPS LOCK are swapped
> 	BACKSPACE and DELETE are swapped
> I'm a little biased on the last one because I use Emacs so much, but
> could easily kill it. 
> 
> I'd like to include it in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps as an alternative
> keymap for people to use.  It won't change the defaults, and people
> using it I'm assuming will know how do have their delete backwards
> character do the right thing when it is DEL rather than BS.
> 
> Comments?

I like the idea, and when it shows up, I'll probably use it.

> 
> Warner
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