Re: [MiNT] patch:MiNT:keyboard

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:11:54 , Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@ibi.uw.edu.pl> wrote:
> >>> I don't think I've ever seen Clr/Home as a modifier.
> >>
> >> This is actually not a matter of "ever seeing", but a matter of checking,
> >> if TOS really (as Compendium states, IIRC) uses Clr/Home and Insert as
> >> modifiers.
> >>
> > After 20-odd years and thousands of apps I have never seen Clr/Home or
> > Insert as a modifier.  :-)
>
> Please stop trolling.

!%$"^%&^&*

> Even 200 years and a millions of apps won't replace a single check, how
> does the TOS BIOS set the bits of its Kbshift variable in response to
> Insert or Clr/Home to be hit. From the time of writing keyboard.c I seem
> to remember that documentation says that these both keys _are_ modifiers.
> But Compendium's statements are often false, so it is worth testing.
>
> Pozdrawiam
> KMK
>
>
Blindly following 20-odd year old docs and then breaking lots of apps
is not a clever to do. I have lost count of the number of times I've
found complete rubbish in documentation from some of the industries biggest.