From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 00:54:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA55106564A for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:54:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fish.kungfu@yandex.ru) Received: from forward14.mail.yandex.net (forward14.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:801::4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A605E8FC19 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web151.yandex.ru (web151.yandex.ru [95.108.131.164]) by forward14.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 1A02E1982C68 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:54:00 +0400 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1332982441; bh=OBzCAXMpoyPfnvqc1ItcSNBflg1/TaFmfGN0SKoszf8=; h=From:To:In-Reply-To:Subject:MIME-Version:Message-Id:Date: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type; b=KQdd3uJv482pnsniWtHFlP78tEkIUhyxwecpRtzMcBRlBJFj44CKzXyYm5T7K9j40 MX+mhAw2E1WhLrSUdM/nAIQcq/aPyvDqIyx4Y0ihoYwuij7qqfmpzwSJ9p9AK8YjwV MliicDAgkNnON8rFE41BN0yc/fKqVQeZwEJBXZfs= Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by web151.yandex.ru (Yandex) with ESMTP id B871B6F18013; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:54:00 +0400 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1332982440; bh=OBzCAXMpoyPfnvqc1ItcSNBflg1/TaFmfGN0SKoszf8=; h=From:To:In-Reply-To:Subject:MIME-Version:Message-Id:Date: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type; b=njhToviomBrYlevqbD81oXh8O8Tp0uuJfdwO9XD3ypRXoMfffwhiCGWR/+cVOJsGz pfNhpoa9AY0XkZ3QP4oBvRAVvlr0owxKoJaMYMkEBPJ1tIbvjTwUB241sp/UcYuOfE P3g+z5hIY1iumX9+SaH+plMCv7HJzciZ9+jIoVsQ= Received: from adsl-068-159-116-104.sip.gsp.bellsouth.net (adsl-068-159-116-104.sip.gsp.bellsouth.net [68.159.116.104]) by web151.yandex.ru with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:54:00 +0400 From: fish.kungfu@yandex.ru To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20120329002440.GA9313@hemlock.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <250801332982440@web151.yandex.ru> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:54:00 -0500 X-Mailer: Yamail [ http://yandex.ru ] 5.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:54:03 -0000 The Twiddler 2.1 keyboard is a good example of a chorded keyboard. It became popular with wearable computers where the user wore a heads-up augmented reality type display. Cheers...Fish 28.03.12, 19:25, "Chad Perrin" ": > > 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 ] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Sent from Yandex.Mail for mobile: http://m.ya.ru/ymail