Hi,
As I use on my main (and BBC development) machine a Northgate OmniKey
keyboard (Jerry Pournelle's favourite) which has a US layout and the control
key where God intended it to be (and is > 10 years old - I'm dreading its
inevitable demise) I never even considered the question of keyboard mappings
with the BBC until Proinnsias mentioned it yesterday - he not unreasonably
pointed out that the majority of ILUG people are likely to be using
keyboards with UK layouts. My initial reaction was NMFP but I decided to be
a nice boy and include loadkeys et al.
As mentioned, I don't use a UK keyboard so I'm not sure what should
happen. I know that " and @ are switched vis-a-vis a U.S. layout, and £
should be where # is. It does appear to work in jed, and when I do
read x
from the prompt but when I press the £ key from a shell prompt it doesn't
echo, but apparently produces ^A#^J because a # appears at the start of my
input line, and input ends i.e. I get a new shell prompt. I imagine this is
normal behaviour with bash (using emacs mode line editing, of course) and a
UK keyboard without taking special steps but I'd just like some confirmation
that that is the case.
Regards,
Niall
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