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Re: Control-C conundrum
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Control-C conundrum |
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Sat, 6 Jun 2015 12:01:10 -0600 |
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Tim Johnson wrote:
> I use a Happy Hacking Lite2 Keyboard (non-mac), for the most part,
> attached to a Mac Mini with OS X. I have a numeric keypad on the
> left which I've also set up for emacs and a logitech trackball on
> the right.
I also own a Happy Hacker Lite 2. The one with the cursor keys on the
lower right side.
http://www.pfusystems.com/embedded-keyboard/hhkb/index.html
The keys are excellent. The left half is perfect for me. The right
half has a different key layout than the IBM PC with the short enter
and gives me difficulty. In particular the Delete key give me
problems because I type fast with lots of mistakes and lots of hitting
of the backspace key. On the HHL2 it is located in a different spot
and I always end up hitting the backslash instead. If that one key,
Delete, were in the same place as the IBM PC keyboard Backspace then I
think I would adapt better to the rearrangement of the backslash and
tilde keys. But because of that difference in arrangement I moved
away from it. That keyboard is now in my traveling computer parts bag
for use plugging into headless systems. It is a nice keyboard. But I
didn't adapt to it for full time use.
> Alternatively I use any of several netbooks. Those are running
> lubuntu with fluxbox and have the control and capslock switched
> via xmodmap. Generally I'm ssh'd onto the Mac from a netbook.
Most of the netbooks have squished compact keyboards with additional
keys rearranged. You must be a person who can adapt to different
keyboards easier than I do. Good for you. Bad for me. I find it
difficult to use the compacted keyboards and it is worse when random
keys are moved to non-standard locations.
> I seldom use the 'alt' key, prefering Ctl-[ or ESC. ESC is on the
> left on all machines that I have to use.
Me too. For normal things such as M-w for me it is ESC-w. However
for more complex combinations such as M-^ that would require an
awkward move of the left pinky. For that I tend to use left shift-alt
with thumb and forefinger and then ^ with the right forefinger.
Bob
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