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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:09:53 -0700
From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
Subject: Re: Choosing a new laptop 
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Mikael Cardell <mc@hack.org> wrote:

> Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> writes:
> 
> > on the A31, the Esc key is directly above F1, which drives me batty.
> 
> Why don't you remap another key as ESC? On my (Swedish) keyboard there

     ... because there is no good key that can be used.  I like having
the Esc key be close to the "1" key in the top row, and there is no
(little-used) key there that I can use.

[ There are, of course, other keys near the "1" key, but using any of
  those as an Esc key would be analogous to remapping the space bar to
  [Enter].  ;-)  It's not something that I'd want to do.  ]

-- 
	Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@soco.agilent.com

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