show me the code

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 1, 2008, at 9:12 , Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we're currently here at the Linux days in Chemnitz, Germany and as
> always the XOs are receiving a lot of attention. Interestingly we've
> also been asked about the „show me the code“ functionality a couple of
> times already. Now I'd like to know what the current status of that
> feature was, whether someone is actively working on it already, when
> it's expected to land, etc.

AFAIK the only activities supporting the view-source key currently  
are Chat (which opens its source code in Pippy), Browse (showing the  
HTML source code) and Etoys (showing a menu giving access to code  
browsers and other tools).

It works only on certain combinations of hardware and software. Like,  
on my B4 with Arabic keyboard at 693, fn-space does not generate the  
correct keyboard symbol (XF86Start). Browse has Ctrl-U as alternative  
shortcut, Etoys supports Ctrl-"," (comma) and Chat has no alternative  
shortcut. On my MP machine with English keyboard, fn-space works.

- Bert -