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? ================================================================= 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]
