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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
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Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 07:54:02 GMT
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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.

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