[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Technical questions (numbered tile markers )

[Teemu Kurppa <tkurppa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Paul Zastoupil wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 03:09:51PM -0500, Jason Short wrote:
> > One workaround would be to use different keys.  What about F<num> to 
> > jump to and ctrl-F<num> to set?
> 
> F# are used for reports.
> 
> And as Teemu Kurppa pointed out, most of us have most of the function
> keys+modifiers mapped to stuff.  Mine are for the window manager.  I like
> the idea of using numbers, but I wasn't able to use the shift+number to
> work correctly.  How about the meta/alt key?

For same reasons I also prefer number keys to function keys. 
Alt- and ctrl-modifiers instead of shift- and ctrl-modifiers might be more
"portable". In any case, it seems that there's no perfect solution to the
problem. 
 
> Btw, I think this is a very cool patch.

Thanks. I have some more ideas about markers and their usage. I'll write
about them as soon as I get these little modifications done.  

Teemu