Re: tlug: kinput2 vs. egg

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

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tlug note from Craig Oda <craig@example.com>
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From: Steve Dunham <dunham@example.com>
Subject: Re: tlug: kinput2 vs. egg [was: Yatta! XEmacs Japanese input with kinput2 via XIM]
Date: 24 May 1997 22:21:20 -0400

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> tlug note from Steve Dunham <dunham@example.com>
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> Actually, I have the "Menu" button on my MS keyboard mapped to
> "Kanji".   The keyboard feels really nice, but the best feature is all
> of the "buckey keys".  
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>    xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Kanji"

Steve,
thanks for the tip on this.  I was too lazy to find the keycode for
that funny square key with the cross through it.  Is there any
way to call up a program that tells me what the keycode is just
by pressing the key?  Anyway, I've mapped that key to the Meta_L
key so that I can type in Emacs faster and still use the Alt_L
key for stuff like calling the menus up in afterstep.  

One thing that I'm curious about though, what is the advantage of
having the Kanji henkan key defined in kinput2?  I'm using canna-egg
right now, so I can't test it, but I seem to remember using
C-j to do the Kanji henkan.  This was fast enough for me.  There
were some other shortcuts like F1 (?) for katakana conversion.  This
was a bit of a reach, but since I type kanji horribly slow anyway,
it was okay.     

Regards,
Craig
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