On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The fact that Alt can be used by other applications (or even the operating
> environment itself) suggests that it would be useful to have another
> mechanism.
>


Perhaps, but what David did works real well without the crazy machinations
I had to go through with xkbcomp.  xkbcomp, IMO, is not suitable for human
consumption.



>
> I still want to promote my prefix-based method. :-)
>

Not entirely sure what you mean here, but again, David's routine works real
well without any messing.


>
> And... of course... integrating this into gnu apl proper.
>

I strongly agree with that!


>
> Regards,
> Elias
>
> On 23 October 2014 17:25, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear David,
>>
>> Cool tool.  I like it.  Thanks!
>>
>> 1.  It compiled on my LinuxMint x64 box without incident, and it does
>> work.
>>
>> 2.  I had to disable the activation of terminal menu features with the
>> Alt key.  No biggie, but you must be sure to do it for things like Alt-H
>> (∇) to work.
>>
>> 3.  For some reason, when I type )off, I must hit an extra CR in order to
>> exit.  Perhaps the pipe is requiring this.
>>
>> 4.  The following keys are mis-mapped:
>>     ⍀ (Alt-period)
>>     ⍙ (the one on top of the ⍀)
>>     ⌸ (Alt-Shift-K)
>>
>> The last one was taken from http://dfns.dyalog.com/n_keyboards.htm
>>
>>
>> Juergen, I think ⌸ should be added to ]keyb at Alt-Shift-K.  That is
>> where Dialog has it, and I thought you had it there before too.
>>
>> Thanks for a great tool, David!
>>
>> Blake
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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