On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For a german keyboard layout, you get @{u} from
>
> hold AltGr (Meta)
> press q
> press 7
> release AltGr
> press u
> hold AltGr
> press 0
>
> For me, an improvement would be to have the alias
>
> @{↓}
While it's convenient to type, the output now looks strange. If you do
a screencast, or someone is watching you, they may not understand what
that syntax is.
Also..
> As a simpler case, a user could tailor to her keyboard layout with
>
> git config revalias.↓ u
We may also have encoding issue here. What if config file is in utf-8,
but the console is not?
So I don't we should go this way. There may be a better way to deal
with different keyboard layouts.
> Well, this patch is actually specific to a particular keyboard layout!
> It improves things only for a layout where you get @ and { using a shift
> key.
Fully agreed. While it does not help non en-US keyboards, it does not
cause any harm (jealousy is not classified as harm to me, rather
motivation ;).
--
Duy
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