Bill Venners wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Robert Fischer
> <
robert.fischer@...> wrote:
>> Someone could make a fine little side-business on selling "Scala" keyboards!
>>
> I wonder how hard it would be to reprogram one function key to the be
> the Unicode character for =>, another function key to be the Unicode
> character for <-, and still another function key the Unicode character
> for ->. That would make for a bit prettier code, and one could argue
> it would make for more "functional" programming. Sorry about that last
> one, but having some kind of downloadable file that would reprogram
> function keys to make scala programming quicker might be useful.
I'm on Ubuntu and I put together a small keyboard layout that extends US
basic:
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "scala" {
name[Group1]= "USA - Scala";
include "us(basic)"
key <AB08> { [ comma, less, leftarrow, leftarrow ] };
key <AB09> { [ period, greater, rightarrow, rightarrow ] };
// Double right arrow
key <AE12> { [ equal, plus, 0x10021D2, 0x10021D2 ] };
};
This should generally work on any Linux system using XKB, although
configuration may be distro-specific. On Linux, you can paste the above
text at the end of /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us, then for Ubuntu >=
8.10, edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml and find "olpc2". Insert
the following XML after the </variant> tag for olpc2:
<variant>
<configItem>
<name>scala</name>
<description>Scala Layout</description>
</configItem>
</variant>
Now, if you open the keyboard preferences and add a layout, there should
be a new one under United States called "USA Scala Layout". Kinda crude
having to hack on these files, but it works.
Derek
