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Re: Bidi support for Linux
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Bidi support for Linux
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 09 May 2001 14:16:30 +0300
- Cc: Ivrix Discussions <ivrix-discuss(at-nospam)ivrix.org.il>, matial(at-nospam)il.ibm.com, linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- In-Reply-To: "Nadav Har'El"'s message of "Wed, 9 May 2001 12:37:08 +0300"
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"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001, Shai Berger wrote about "Re: Bidi support for Linux":
> > not keyboard events (which makes more sense IMHO), and so setting Ctrl-shift to
> >...
>
> This is an excellent point.
Hear, hear!
> > Do we really want to break consistency with the *NIX world for consistency
> > with Windows?
No way. No *NIX zealotry implied.
> > The alternative, of course, is the perfectly useless Scroll Lock key, which
> > even has a unused led attached to it on most keyboards.
How about "the windows key"?
> Some time ago I was also using the Caps-Lock (which I find a totally useless
> key ever since I stopped programming in Fortran ;),
Come again? Fortran is case-insensitive.
> Alt key (which is commonly used for multiple language support), the "Windows"
> key and the "Menu" key.
Ah, Nadav, you are too quick for me... ;-)
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Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
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