Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:42:34 -0400 From: Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard layouts (the Happy Hacking keyboard) Message-ID: <20000817094234.C3056@carroll.net> In-Reply-To: <20000817153725.T40492@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:37:25PM %2B0930 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001251536280.11748-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000126095411.B43103@freebie.lemis.com> <20000815142645.A37927@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000816200136.C254@parish> <20000817113209.A2065@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000817153725.T40492@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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I decided to just ditch my traditional keyboard and go with the Happy Hacking keyboard: http://www.pfuca.com/products/hhkb/hhkbindex.html -- Damien Tougas Carroll-Net, Inc. http://www.carroll.com On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:37:25PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at 11:32:09 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Mark Ovens said on Aug 16, 2000 at 20:01:36: > >> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:26:45PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:54:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>>> The difference with Emacs is that you don't just use the shift key, > >>>> you also use the control and meta keys. This may take a little > >>>> getting used to (especially if you're using the standard broken > >>>> keyboard layout that replaces control with CapsLock), but if you have > >>> > >>> Where are ctrl and caps-lock *supposed* to be? > >>> > >> > >> Where do you want them to be? :) The traditional Unix locations are > >> the opposite to a std PC keyboard, i.e. Ctrl next to 'A' and CapsLock > >> below the LeftShift key. > > > > I remember the old PC-XT keyboards had them that way too. It changed > > with the bigger PC-AT keyboards. Who's to blame for the change? > > IBM? > > Possibly. > > > But now it's so standard I think there's little point in doing it > > any other way. > > There's every point. The current positions are just plain bad. Ask > everybody with carpal tunnel syndrome if he wouldn't prefer some > better way. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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