Re: Raster's typing - was Re: gtkstep info

[Dave Gilbert <gilbertd treblig org>]

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Evan Lawrence wrote:

> 
> On 19-Sep-98 Nat Friedman wrote:
> > My typo corrector would not replace "Soren" with "Sarin" because 'o'
> > and 'a' are not very close on the keyboard, and neither are 'i' and
> > 'e'.  I don't even know what a Sarin is, to be honest, and so "Sarin"
> > would probably not replace "Soren" even if 'a' and 'o' were close,
> > since "Sarin" would probably not be in my typo corrector's lexicon.
> 
> Quick question about this - what about people using Dvorak keyboards, or other
> alternative keyboard configurations? Obviously you could turn off the
> typo-corrector, but it'd be cool to have plugins or something for different
> keyboards - is this taken care of already?

Presumably one could use the data from the XInput keyboard stuff which if
I recall correctly has a keyboard layout map; however we have to be
careful about the little subtelties like keyboards which have a few keys
in strange places (like this one which has the ~ to the right of the right
shift...Odd I know but the keyboard is otherwise so nice I can forgive the
occasional odd feature).

Dave

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