On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:40:59 +0100 Uriel wrote: > The beauty of ed is that its design is so minimalistic and its > interface so elegant, that it can adapt to a completely new > environment without the need of any changes. Isn't that contradictory? To adapt involves to change, doesn't it? Otherwise it just accidentally fits in without the need to adapt.
----- On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:59:09 +0100 Uriel wrote: > I have no clue about dead keys, never had any use for them anyway, Maybe you shouldn't comment on something you don't have a clue about??? > but on Plan 9(and I think p9p) you certainly don't need them, you can > enter all the german/french/spanish chars(and a few more) easily from > an US keyboard layout, see keyboard(6) for details. This is not a Plan 9/Unix/DOS/any_os problem, this is a keyboard design problem. The idea behind dead keys is combining accents with other characters without the need of a compose key and without the need to add ten new keys... > This is another wonderful Plan 9 feature that I miss every time I have > to use some other idiotic system where I need to figure out how to > change the damned keymap just to enter a few characters from another > language, on Plan 9 they are all on your finger tips, from > mathematical symbols to chess pieces(!), and including greek, latin > cyrillic alphabets. Look around /lib/keyboard and have fun finding out > how to type characters you didn't even know existed in Unicode. (This composing thing is not unique to Plan 9 so it's not that special.) But here it's not about rarely used symbols (as if I were to type a mail in french) but about everyday letters, where you need them often! If an OS doesn't support dead keys that's a serious missing feature... ----- On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:56:51 +0100 Uriel wrote: > fuck off and > stop spamming. ...maybe you should start with that yourself... ...I couldn't resist ;-) Stefan -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
