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Re: Physical keyboard events


From: Cecilio Pardo
Subject: Re: Physical keyboard events
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:20:43 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 29/10/2024 18:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

I envisage these leading to trouble.

For example, my KVM box intercepts a sufficiently rapid double press on
(either) Control key, and then expects a CR to switch computers, or ESC
to cancel (and maybe there are other keys I don't know about).

I quite frequently start typing a command by pressing the Control key,
then change my mind and let it go again.  I might sometimes hold that
key while trying to decide what I want to do.  The same surely applies
to Meta as well.

The way I hope to implement it, there will be no interference if you don't activate it. Many editors such as VSCode and the ones from JetBrains use this, and people appreciate it.

To make this work on a tty would involve fancy work on the keyboard
layout if it's even possible.  On a Linux console, it might even need
enhancements to the kernel.

I'm not sure binding our shift keys to commands, or even prefixes, is a
good idea.

I was planning for GUI systems alone.

Thanks.



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