Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:24:40 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet Message-ID: <20120329002440.GA9313@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20120328232451.GB22958@thought.org> References: <4F6FACB5.5030900@dichotomia.fr> <201203260021.q2Q0LpOF084377@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120326154223.GA11501@hemlock.hydra> <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4FAC8965-EF32-4857-BA8E-936B357DE308@mac.com> <4F7117D2.70405@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120327194017.GA22276@thought.org> <CAAuBV2dm4kuyg5SeC6P%2B0YEi0kWb_gqb8EjmSeTUbhoRw%2B_Yng@mail.gmail.com> <20120328151954.GA13609@hemlock.hydra> <20120328232451.GB22958@thought.org>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an > > obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck > > on a QWERTY keyboard, but you have to know the chords to do anything on a > > chording keyboard. > > i dont have a clue what a chording keybd is; will google > after a long nap1 also, i have lost track of who posted the > 'fentek' page, but that is where i got my present mine. A chording keyboard is a keyboard or other button-press interface with fewer keys so it can fit on a smaller device, where many keycodes are gotten by way of combining presses of multiple keys rather than a single key as on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Thus, for instance, where on a QWERTY keyboard you get a capital A by holding the Shift key and pressing the A key, you might on a chording keyboard also get a lower-case A by holding down some key and pressing another key. This works for keyboards with fewer keys because there are many potential combinations of keys that could be used; if all keycodes are achieved by a two-button "chord", all the keys on a standard 101-key keyboard, plus all Alt-, Shift-, and Ctrl-chord keycodes, could be simulated by a mere twenty keys. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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