On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:53:31PM +0200, Staffan Thomén wrote: > One thing I'd like to point out is that I often find I don't have the > right keyboard layout or am restricted in some way in from typing in the > bootloader (glitchy serial connection or really fast repeating keyboard > or something), so keeping the syntax brief and with as few non- > alphabetical characters as possible would probably be a good idea. > > Just throwing some cents on the pile,
I have been annoyed by that too (a GENERIC kernel has a US qwerty default compiled in) and I wondered if a supplementary short command to switch the mapping, in userconf, would not be convenient too (no need to deal with accented characters or whatever: just providing the ASCII chars where the engraving of a different keyboard puts there). For the extra characters, I think what can be accessible on the numpad is handy (I even had * not accessible with some USB keyboards...). This leaves the braces (for the groups) more problematic. -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C