DEC Keyboards (was Re: [Various] Backspace direction reversion)
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
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The defaults in DEC OSF appear to be different. The key above
return
generates Delete, the function key above the arrow keys generates
apLineDel. What is `apLineDel'? Is it something DEC-specific?
I've now installed the DEC lk411-jj keyboard that came with the system
and set the DEC defaults and run XEmacs with
`delete-key-deletes-forward' set to t and it appears to behave sanely.
There are some strange markings above F11 (ESC), F12(BS) and F13(LF).
When the language environment is set to English, F11 generates the
Escape keysym[1], F12 and F13 generate `F12' and `F13' respectively. In
a Japanese language environment, F11 becomes just plain F11.
This keyboard has a Remove key that also generates apLineDel like the
IBM PC keyboard. Fans of a function key deleting forwards probably
ought to think about supporting this.
apLineDel not defined.
Question for our friends who work at Digital: under what circumstances
is the F12 key made into a backspace key?
Footnotes:
[1] and the key labeled `ESC' generates `grave', but that's
irrelevant to this discussion.