From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Keyboard oddness.
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:48:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030926124805.GC22395@pegasys.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064572898.21735.17.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t>
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:41:38PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le ven 26/09/2003 à 12:24, Vojtech Pavlik a écrit :
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:43:43AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Couldn't it at least detect there's a problem ? Most people I know do not press a key
> > > 2000+ times in a row during normal activity.
> >
> > You do. Scrolling up/down in a document is one example. And there is no
> > point to limit the repeat to say 80 or 200 characters. You would still
> > hate having 80 repeated characters and then it stopping.
>
> Well then only allow monster autorepeats for arrows then.
> (they are never stuck in my board anyway;)
And j, k, w, b, ., all function keys, <bs>, <del>, <cr>,
<sp>, <tab> and any other key used by any editor or game for
navigation, level control or other function where the same
key would be used scores of times in in rapid sequence.
Hmm, i've just described most of the keyboard.
END SARCASM
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-26 9:43 Keyboard oddness Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-26 10:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26 10:41 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-26 10:51 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26 12:48 ` jw schultz [this message]
2003-09-26 13:08 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-26 13:41 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26 14:12 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-26 14:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26 14:21 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-26 14:26 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26 14:50 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-26 15:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26 15:21 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-26 15:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26 13:56 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-26 14:01 ` Mike Dresser
2003-09-28 10:58 ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-02 12:40 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-01 10:09 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-01 13:06 ` Nicolas Mailhot
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-20 20:33 Rob Landley
2003-09-20 22:18 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-21 18:51 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-21 10:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-21 20:20 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-22 20:06 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-22 22:06 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-23 0:23 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-23 10:51 ` Greg Louis
2003-09-25 23:59 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-26 1:27 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-26 8:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-26 8:43 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-26 8:46 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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