30 Jul
2013
30 Jul
'13
7:38 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:38:26PM -0600, Eric Smith wrote:
[...]
The shape is important because on properly sculptured
keycaps, your fingers
self-center. On flat square keys they don't.
I note that the wear pattern on this here MacBook Pro keyboard that I've been
using for over four years is such that most of the keycaps are now concave.
It's interesting to see which keys *haven't* worn: ?/?, the function keys,
eject, caps lock, both Alt keys, and the right-hand command and shift keys. As
an Emacs user, Esc and Ctrl are very smooth, with X being smoother than E,
probably from C-x. A is smoother than E too, probably from screen(1).