On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 10:03 -0700, Les wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 14:15 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > > William Case wrote: > > > What I would now like ask is, is someone saving, arranging, compiling, > > > harvesting these middle level answers so they can easily be found by the > > > newrus and gurbies of the world? I know how long I have spent searching > > > for answers or explanations. > > > > You should consider starting a blog or making an FAQ about these questions. > > Maybe this would be a good Wiki. I mean from what I gather a wiki is > about gatherW > Regards, > Les H > Well that is an idea. Just getting across that each key generates a keycode and what the programs do with the keycodes is up to the programs. A second basic fact that needs to be undertood, which OP I think did not, is that what comes out of the keyboard or any other input device is just a stream of characters read from the appropriate buffer. What a program like vi does with that stream may make it look like a series of lines across the width of the window but that is an artifact of what vi does with the character stream it receives. A good illustration of this is a project my son took on the summer after finishing high school. That was a Hebrew word processing program. Lines were displayed from right to left and keys when typed showed up with Hebrew letters. And of course things like the shift key caused a shift of the cursor to the left , not to the right. What fun that project was! -- ======================================================================= If food be the music of love, eat up, eat up. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
