Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 11:10:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: sticky shift keys: bug fix and more intuitive behaviour |
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On Sat, 15 May 1999, Werner Almesberger wrote: > > This patch adds a compile-time option CONFIG_SMART_SLOCK to improve the > behaviour of "sticky" shift/ctrl/alt/etc. keys in virtual terminals. The > current behaviour for the sticky keys is that they change the next key, > and only that one. If CONFIG_SMART_SLOCK is enabled, they still change > the next key, but they also continue changing while held down, i.e. like > shift and friends do in normal (non-"sticky") operation.
I would suggest _not_ doing it with an option at all, and just changing it to the new behaviour which seems much more sensible to me.
Adding a new config option doesn't seem to make sense, just fix the bug ;)
Linus
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