keyboard remapping: help!

gwyn at brl-smoke.UUCP gwyn at brl-smoke.UUCP
Wed Jan 28 17:22:02 AEST 1987


In article <1636 at oddjob.UChicago.EDU> mcb at oddjob.UChicago.EDU.UUCP (Matt Bamberger) writes:
>Does anyone know of a good way to remap a terminal (sun especially) to the
>Dvorak layout?  The idea is simple: all you have to do is replace all b's
>with x's, and so on.  The problem I'm having is that some programs seem to
>take input directly from the terminal (so I can't pipe stdin to them through
>a filter).

This won't help Matt in the immediate future, but it is worth noting
that this problem seems ideally suited for a streams module, whenever
the terminal handler finally gets converted to streams.  I suspect a
similar approach could help deal with strange displays (Kanji, etc.).



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