21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
5:53 p.m.
In article <01C82C3B.679A09A0 at host-208-72-122-54.dyn.295.ca>,
M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net> writes:
Well, yes, obviously the location is the issue, but it
is still just another
tedious MS-bash; I've got an APL keyboard here, and I think every
"classic" terminal or computer keyboard I have here is different in
some "improved" way but I don't hear complaints about that, or all the
different PC layouts, especially the enter, backspace and \ keys.
Exactly.
Particularly since it was claimed that *any* keyboard with a Win key
is the #1 awful keyboard. Give me a fsckin' break. There are plenty
of keyboards that are much worse than that -- there are keyboards that
require you to lift your fingers off the home keys in order to reach
CTRL, for instance. Try that with emacs. There are plenty of
keyboards that don't let you type lower case. And so-on.
In addition, the tedious MS-bash was just tossed out there without any
explanation of key placement until further elaboration was requested.
I wouldn't have rolled my eyes had woodelf said something like "I
don't like keyboards that put keys in between my CTRL and ALT keys,
like the common placement of Win keys on newer PC keyboards". That's
a grump about ergonomics, with Win keys given as an example not just
yet another attempt to denigrate all things Windows.
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