Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] another feature

[James A S. <jsi...@ac...>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Steffen Seeger wrote:

> Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:35:35AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> > >
> > > > Another desirable feature to add to the web page is per VC keymaps.  i
> > > > remember chaning my keymap for dosemu, and screwing over some of my other
> > > > apps on other VC's because of it.
> > >
> > > I though about that. The question is should this be per keyboard or per
> > > VC. I really need to look at the solaris driver for /dev/kbd. I think they
> > 
> > Per VC definitely!  We need per VC keymaps and charsets (Yuk!) for true
> > DEC VT compatibility if we ever want to go higher than vt102.  From vt220
> > on there are "user-defined keys" and "downloadable charsets".  You wouldn't
> > want an application on tty1 to redefine the keymap and charset for ttyX.
> > There are even security implications here!
> 
> These are like user-defined function keys? E.g. fixed set of
> keys but you can define the characters they send on press/release?
> Could you give some more details on that?

Is this info at http://vt100.net ?