Assigning a character to a function key

[sronan-VmQCmMdMyN0AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Stephen Ronan)]

> I suggest you check the recycling bin at your local center: 
> most recycled PC's still have usable hard drives in them, and 
> the price is right.

Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I'd normally think of that in 
regard to desktop machines as a lot of them arrive useful for 
spare parts; in this case it's a laptop and those arrive far more 
rarely... but I may be able to find a broken one with a usable 
drive.

> Do you mean the keycap?
> Why not take a keycap from a key you generally never use and 
> use a permanent marker.

Hadn't thought of that. M<akes a lot of sense except in this case 
the part under the missing keycap (thanks I'd forgotten the 
correct name for that) doesn't seem functional. But I'll try it; 
maybe it'll respond better to a keycap than to my index finger.

     -s