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Re: keyboard for emacs?
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B. Smith-Mannschott |
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Re: keyboard for emacs? |
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Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:51:21 +0100 |
On Dec 27, 2006, at 03:32, Ronald wrote:
Is today's keyboard suitable for using emacs?
The best keyboard I've found for using emacs has to be my kinesis
contoured keyboard [1].
[1] http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured_usb.htm
This is primarily because control and alt (meta) are located within
easy reach of my thumbs (along with space, delete, backspace,
enter ...) and a few other keys. I have the two primary emacs
modifiers (control, meta) in easy reach of both hands. No need to
hunt for that pesky escape key.
That said, I can work with a happy hacking keyboard comfortably
because the control key is just next to the A, and I've remapped my
macbook's caps lock key to function as a second control key. That's
also satisfactory.
It would be very different (i.e. craptastic) if I were unable to
remap control, particularly since the macbook has an [fn] key in the
corner where one might expect to find control.
// ben
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