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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!netcom2!ceb From: ceb@netcom2.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] German Keyboard In-Reply-To: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de's message of 06 Dec 93 14:39:07 GMT Message-ID: <CEB.93Dec6235403@netcom2.netcom.com> Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto References: <2dvg6e$b1e@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 07:54:02 GMT Lines: 30 In article <2dvg6e$b1e@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) writes: From: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 06 Dec 93 14:39:07 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Ok, I tried to get a german keyboard so I changed what's been mentioned in the syscons-extra package. Now I have almost a real german keyboard but there's just one bug: You may consider this cheating, but I find it fits what I use foreign-language keyboards for on computers, namely working with text inside an editor. I simply write a mode in Emacs in which the keyboard gets remapped, which I switch into and out of with a function key or something. With emacs-19, it's even easier. It also works on Unix boxes on which I do not have root privileges: When I type to a shell, it's always linguistically non-interesting commands which are English-based anyway, so who needs Umlaeute? P.S.: Did I mention that FreeBSD is a great system ? Yes ? In another article ? Ok, then I repeat it now...:-) Greatest thing since bit-sliced micros. --