RE: console support (was RIDE for BSD)

2000-01-08 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Kazu, The comments on Linux were not mine. But I was echo'ing the orginal poster's request that the keyboard mapping and console (screen) settings be set to defaults that make sense vis-a-vis PC hardware and PC users' common expectations. That simply means that, to the extent possible, the ESC,

Re: console support (was RIDE for BSD)

2000-01-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>I second this. I'm not a linux user, but as a FreeBSD newbie >I had a lot of trouble getting anywhere with console programs, >esp. emacs and various IDE's that I tried to install. The key >board mapping was difficult/impossible to figure out, and it [...] If the program in question is written

RE: console support (was RIDE for BSD)

2000-01-04 Thread Allen Pulsifer
I second this. I'm not a linux user, but as a FreeBSD newbie I had a lot of trouble getting anywhere with console programs, esp. emacs and various IDE's that I tried to install. The key board mapping was difficult/impossible to figure out, and it also seemed like cons25 didn't always work correc