Ask for help: would anyone know how to use a french keyboard with 9front or plan9?
I'm trying the latest 9front release with qemu. I can start rio and I have a mouse so I'm almost there.
But my programmable keyboard layout assumes a french keyboard and doesn't have a fourth row, so numbers & fourth row symbols are super hard to find.
Ok, I found it 😊
Having learned ed (the standard editor) a few months ago was very useful today to get started in plan9, to persist a few important configurations like keyboard mapping.
It avoided me the unnecessary stress of having to learn a new strange editor like sam and acme at the same time as learning how to setup a new OS.
Ed really is the standard editor!
Now the basic setup is done, I have 9front ready to go & I can take the time to learn sam & acme in a working environment.
I start to really enjoy the acme idea of having commands separated from the outputs of commands. It keeps a list of recent commands visible at all times.
And because in acme everything is text, I can manage this list however I want. Reuse a command, duplicate & modify, change the order of recent commands...
Sébastien Roccaserra 🐿️