begin quoting Rick Funderburg as of Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:29:56PM -0700: [snip] > I use a laptop, so the arrow keys are basically the same distance as > the left control key. When I had a desktop, I used my Happy Hacking > Lite keyboard with has the arrow keys in the same place.
On my laptop, the arrow keys are pretty small and not entirely useful. On my Happy Hacking keyboard, yeah, they're not so far away as on my other keyboards, although I still prefer the diamond layout from my A1000 keyboard. Then again, I taught myself to type on the A1000. > Maybe my little finger is too short (though I doubt it), but I cannot > comfortably keep any of my left fingers on their home keys while > hitting the control or escape keys on a keyboard with a typical > layout. "Typical" meaning "PC dominated"? Sun "UNIX" keyboards -- and the Happy Hacking keyboard, IIRC -- have control where it belongs. The Escape key floats around a bit, however. > You may say that I could swap control with caps lock, but I Since I loathe caps lock, may I suggest *replacing* caps lock with control? :) > have found that it is easier to just use vim to remap escape to be the > key sequence jj. Then you really don't need to leave the home row. Um.... good for you. It would probably drive me nuts. :) -- Different (key)strokes for different folks. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
