[quake3] Re: internationally accepted toggleconsole bind

[echon at echon.org]

IMHO Doom3 and Quake4 did it best. It's ctrl+alt+tilde unless you have 
com_allowConsole set to 1. This allows you to use tilde as a bind key, say 
it in chat, and preserve the console's availability. Though I have no idea 
how this would do on other keyboard types. The console is more a developer 
thing anyways, you're doing something wrong if your players have to 
regularly use it. :)

At 01:45 PM 2/5/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:57:59PM +0100, Erik Kloppenburg wrote:
> > Tony J. White wrote:
> > >Using "Caps Lock" is bad because IT LEADS TO ACCIDENTAL CAPS 
> LOCKING.  Also
> > >I've noticed problems using "Caps Lock" as a user-defined bind because
> > >holding it seems to cause some (hardware?) conflicts that can cause 
> certain
> > >other key presses to be ignored until it is released.  At least on my PS/2
> > >IBM Model M.
> >
> > Capslock cannot be bound by the way in ioq3. It can in idq3. The
> > deadkey-problem for ~ doesnt excist in idq3, but does in ioq3.
>
>I added a new patch to https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2741
>
>It is mostly Christophe Cavalaria's patch for supporting the
>SDLK_WORLDX keys (plus quite a few others).
>
>I've added "Caps Lock" as well, but beware there are annoying issues with
>"Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" with SDL (see Caveat in bug report).
>
>The patch also contains my proposed Shift-Esc toggleconsole bind.
>
>Would those of you with SDL "deadkey" problems mind testing out this patch?
>
>-Tony