Re: [Bug-apl] apl.xkb

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Blake,

I have copied your apl.wasd.kbd to the Dyalog keyboard folder, SVN 418.
The file is now called apl.kbd everywhere and the folder tells which 
keyboard is meant.


/// Jürgen


On 08/01/2014 05:57 PM, Blake McBride wrote:
> GNU APL comes with a file named apl.xkb under the support-files 
> directory.  I just did some testing of it with a normal (non-apl) 
> keyboard.  The mappings in that file are way out-of-date and do not 
> match ]keyb output.  That would also be true of the compiled version 
> of that file - apl.xkm.
>
> I then tested my WASD map file - apl.wasd.xkb.  That file correctly 
> maps a non-apl keyboard to map correctly with ]keyb output.
>
> Although my WASD config file was made for my WASD keyboard design, it 
> also completely correctly maps to non-APL keyboards too.
>
> I suggest that:
>
> 1.  support-files/apl.wasd.kbd be copied to apl.xkb
>
> 2.  remove apl.xkm
>
> 3.  Update the docs to use apl.xkb rather than apl.xkm (just 
> substitute apl.xkm with apl.xkb in README-3-keyboard
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake