how to swap ctrl/caps lock keys for joe?

how to swap ctrl/caps lock keys for joe?

[Jerry James Haumberger]

Hi, folks --

Under BasicLinux I've recently installed the joe editor for its
jstar capabilities (which mimic WordStar).  The actual DOS WordStar
editor added a small binary to switch your Caps Lock and left
Ctrl keys to make it easier to manipulate the WordStar navigation
and command key combinations with the left small finger.  (The
older computer keyboards didn't have two Ctrl keys -- there was
a Ctrl key just to the left of the "a" key that made Ctrl key
combinations easy.)  Under Linux, however, one must deal with
key assignments under various shells and other programs that often
change for each of these applications.  I have not found in the
joerc configuration file (or anywhere else, yet) where you can
alter the Caps Lock/left Ctrl key assignments to accommodate an
easier usage of joe/jstar.

Has anyone else on the list encountered this need and found a
working solution for the Linux console?  I found a solution through
a Google search for joe that works under X, but I'm not using X
on this machine.

Thank you for any help!

----------------------------------------------------------
Jerry... on a 486 DX2-50MHz with 8MB RAM in BasicLinux 1.7


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Re: how to swap ctrl/caps lock keys for joe?

[Ray Olszewski]

I don't do this myself, but there is a standard set of tools for remapping 
the keyboard with Linux consoles. For the details (I can't say it any 
better than they do), check the Keyboard and Console HowTo, available at 
(for example):

         http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html

At , Jerry James Haumberger wrote:

>Under BasicLinux I've recently installed the joe editor for its
>jstar capabilities (which mimic WordStar).  The actual DOS WordStar
>editor added a small binary to switch your Caps Lock and left
>Ctrl keys to make it easier to manipulate the WordStar navigation
>and command key combinations with the left small finger.  (The
>older computer keyboards didn't have two Ctrl keys -- there was
>a Ctrl key just to the left of the "a" key that made Ctrl key
>combinations easy.)  Under Linux, however, one must deal with
>key assignments under various shells and other programs that often
>change for each of these applications.  I have not found in the
>joerc configuration file (or anywhere else, yet) where you can
>alter the Caps Lock/left Ctrl key assignments to accommodate an
>easier usage of joe/jstar.
>
>Has anyone else on the list encountered this need and found a
>working solution for the Linux console?  I found a solution through
>a Google search for joe that works under X, but I'm not using X
>on this machine.



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how to swap ctrl/caps lock keys for joe?

[Jerry James Haumberger]

Hi, Ray --

>I don't do this myself, but there is a standard set of tools for remapping 
>the keyboard with Linux consoles. For the details (I can't say it any 
>better than they do), check the Keyboard and Console HowTo, available at 
>(for example):

>         http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html

Thank you for the reference, however, it was both a difficult and
simple task to find the solution.  The difficult part was the problem
with finding the problem documented on the Internet, and then sift
through all of that with a fine-toothed comb.

To make the long problem simple, here's the solution for swapping
the left Control key and Caps Lock keys for greater ease of use
with WordStar control key combinations while under BasicLinux:

1.  I got kbd.tgz from the Slackware 3.5 ftp site and extracted
us.map and loadkeys.

2.  Next, I put us.map in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/ .

3.  Then I moved loadkeys to /usr/bin .

4.  After that, I modified us.map to make "keycode 58 = Control"
    (instead of 29) and "keycode 29 = Caps_Lock" (instead of 58).

5.  Finally, I added "loadkeys us.map" at the bottom of my rc.S
    file at /etc/rc.d/ and rebooted.
    
Done... and now, at last, I can easily have my WordStar Control key
functioning where it belongs -- and *anywhere* I use it! ;-)
__________________________________________________________
Jerry... on a 486 DX2-50MHz with 8MB RAM in BasicLinux 1.7


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