On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 07:58:42PM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > On Wednesday 09 July 2003 17:37, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > Design a keymap format that doesn't lose and make it work for at least > > both XFree86 and the linux console - but supporting a dozen other > > programs with custom keymap formats would make it really useful (vim, > > emacs, lyx, yudit, geresh, doesn't this list suggest that a common > > format is missing?). Since getting a new format into all these > > programs will not be easy (I expect Xkb and emacs' leim to be > > especially loath to give up their existing formats, nor does it make > > sense to lose the power of leim at least), a smarter approach would be > > to compile from the master format into the formats accepted by each of > > these programs. And to avoid collecting the data by hand, reverse > > compilers from the most complete databases (leim & Xkb?) should be > > implemented. > > The question to ask is: why do those applications implement custom keymaps? > Aren't UTF-8 terminals (for console apps) and X keysyms (for X11 apps) > enough?
All of them live beyond the linux console. Some have life outside X (Emacs, vim). Also: not all X server support Xkb. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
