Re: Usernames in the chatterbox

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Re^2: Usernames in the chatterbox by davido (Cardinal) on Dec 31, 2004 at 06:30 UTC
I think the point is that if an entry in the CB looked like this: `[davido] Hey everyone, I'm talking in the CB.` [download] ...instead of... `<davido> Hey everyone, I'm talking in the CB.` [download] ...it would be easier for people to copy and paste my square-bracketed-linked-name into their CB replies, without having to find that pesky square bracket key. Frankly, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me. It might take some getting used to from a visual perspective, but it would make pasting easier, and I can't think of anything it breaks, except (maybe) some of the CB bots like im2. Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Usernames in the chatterbox by castaway (Parson) on Dec 31, 2004 at 14:13 UTC
Yup, I knew what was meant, I just recalled that holli is in germany, and thus probably has a german layout. (For them not in the know, on a german layout, the square brackets are alt-gr+8 and alt-gr+9 respectively (thats right-alt key).. Which is a pain to type often.. I'm not quite sure how it would bother im2 or similar, since the XML used in the tickers doesnt contain any of such. C.	[reply]
Re^4: Usernames in the chatterbox by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 01, 2005 at 21:48 UTC
That's why I switched to an English layout with some umlauts mapped into it. I need those much more seldomly than I need all that punctuation. One of these days I'll read the material available on XKB configuration and make this a proper, publishable X11 keymap. As for holli's idea, I quite like the proposition. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^2: Usernames in the chatterbox by theorbtwo (Prior) on Dec 30, 2004 at 20:16 UTC
C'mon, we all know that the en_US (American) keyboard layout is the One True Keyboard Layout!	[reply]
Re^3: Usernames in the chatterbox by holli (Abbot) on Dec 30, 2004 at 20:34 UTC
sure. and George Bush is the One True President. Americans.	[reply]
Re^4: Usernames in the chatterbox by theorbtwo (Prior) on Dec 31, 2004 at 11:18 UTC
Twas largely a joke. OTOH, there are some specific differences between the US and UK layout where the US layout is better, and I can't think of any where it's worse. Specificly, ' and " being on the same key makes sense -- on the UK layout, they're on oppisite ends of the keyboard (' is the same place as US; " is shift-2). Really, though, there are major ways for keyboards to be better or worse for specific tasks -- keyboards that make {}, [], <>, or \ difficult to type are very bad for perl. The differences between US and UK are minor enough that it's probably best in most cases to stick to the one that you know best. In my case, that's US; in castaway's case, that's UK. In your case, it's probably even, so just pick one. So long as it doesn't hurt to type perl in, like the German layout was for me, then it's probably OK for you. Warning: Unless otherwise stated, code is untested. Do not use without understanding. Code is posted in the hopes it is useful, but without warranty. All copyrights are relinquished into the public domain unless otherwise stated. I am not an angel. I am capable of error, and err on a fairly regular basis. If I made a mistake, please let me know (such as by replying to this node).	[reply]