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SubjectRe: PATCH: sticky shift keys: bug fix and more intuitive behaviour


On Sat, 15 May 1999, Werner Almesberger wrote:
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> 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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