Re:Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5
by throwanem on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:42AM
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On further review, a concern: instead of a meta key next to 'q' which can be conveniently remapped to Control, this keyboard has Tab.
In the abstract, it seems reasonable to suspect that that can be mapped in a somewhat complex fashion, such that when pressed and released alone it issues 0x09, while when pressed and held in combination with other keys it sets the Control meta bit. I'm certain Emacs can do this. Can it be done in a Linux DE more generally? It seems like that should be possible, but I'm having a hard time finding examples of similar things being done.
ETA: Or I was; at-home-modifier [1] looks like it'll fit the bill. Crud. There goes what might've been my last reason not to buy one of these things...
In the abstract, it seems reasonable to suspect that that can be mapped in a somewhat complex fashion, such that when pressed and released alone it issues 0x09, while when pressed and held in combination with other keys it sets the Control meta bit. I'm certain Emacs can do this. Can it be done in a Linux DE more generally? It seems like that should be possible, but I'm having a hard time finding examples of similar things being done.
ETA: Or I was; at-home-modifier [1] looks like it'll fit the bill. Crud. There goes what might've been my last reason not to buy one of these things...
[1] https://gitlab.com/at-home-modifier/at-home-modifier-evdev/w...