21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
6:07 p.m.
On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Richard wrote:
In article <01C82C3B.679A09A0 at
host-208-72-122-54.dyn.295.ca>,
M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net> writes:
Despite the fact that I don't use emacs if I've got a choice, I always
remap "Caps Lock" to be "CTRL" on my Model M's (along with
swapping ~
and ESC).
I also detest the stupid placement of <- and \, but at least the Model M
has that right.
Somehow, though, I've gotten used to using a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard at
work, despite the bad key placement. If you use a keyboard long
enough, you'll actually get used to its key placement just fine, no
matter how annoying it is at first, I guess.
Pat
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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.