Clock position

[slackhead]

Added -p [1-9] switch for clock position. (I went with 0-9 initially but since the keys are in 1-9 order it seemed more logical).
Added keys for shift + numbers - !"#$%^&*( to set postition on-the-fly.
Added support for GB keyboards using £ instead of # (wchar.h).

[slackhead]

I've just thought. US keyboards have other differences to my UK one. Can you print out the top row here?

Never mind.

[anarcat]

we do we use shift here? this is bound to fail depending on the keyboard mapping... why not just use the normal digits?

[anarcat]

"starting top-left and ending bottom-right"... how do we get to "bottom left"? :)

i guess we want to say something like "starting clockwise from the top-left" or something like that.

should we make 0 be "center" and remove the other flag? ;)

[slackhead]

I used those characters because the numbers are already mapped for colours. I guess it would have some problems for people using keyboards with different number symbols. I'm not sure how to address that unless we use numbers and assign something else for colours?

It's not really clockwise though. I guess a diagram in the readme would help more:
123
456
789
Perhaps?

[anarcat]

I see. Well, if you need to draw a diagram for users to understand, I would suggest you change to a "clockwise" positionning scheme, with zero in the middle. Usability trumps implementation triviality. :p Regarding the keybindings, I think I would prefer simply not having any keybindings to messing around with keyboard layouts. I would accept a compromise by using arrow keys, but that's about it. let's keep this simple.

[slackhead]

All I can say is that telephones and keyboards have been using
123
456
789

or

789
456
123

for years. Clockwise would be much harder to remember than simple rows imho.

I can take out the keybinds.

[anarcat]

I don't mind using the phone layout if you can explain it clearly, but consider that you have already given two contradictory examples of how those could be laid out, which won't make it easy for people to understand where it will show up.

[slackhead]

I think that
123
456
789
is the and easiest to understand and remember.