Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread demerphq
On 5/28/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * David Landgren [2006-05-28 22:25]: > And on a French azerty keyboard layout, the \ needs a right-alt > to get it. Same holds true for the German QWERTZ layout; it's actually on the same key as ?, except the ? needs Shift. > Of course, the azerty layout is hat

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread Richard Clamp

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Landgren [2006-05-28 22:25]: > And on a French azerty keyboard layout, the \ needs a right-alt > to get it. Same holds true for the German QWERTZ layout; it's actually on the same key as ?, except the ? needs Shift. > Of course, the azerty layout is hateful in many other ways too. Same

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread David Landgren
Juerd wrote: -\? is 4 keystrokes, with all keys but the "-" in a nice place. On QWERTY, it would be even worse: all keys would be awkwardly placed. And on a French azerty keyboard layout, the \ needs a right-alt to get it. Of course, the azerty layout is hateful in many other ways too. Davi

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread Juerd
Bill Page skribis 2006-05-29 3:35 (+0930): > > "-\?" is 4 keystrokes, all in annoying places. (Dvorak does "-" a little > > better than QWERTY.) > you sicken me Ahhh, the satisfaction... :) Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread Bill Page
"-\?" is 4 keystrokes, all in annoying places. (Dvorak does "-" a little better than QWERTY.) you sicken me

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread Peter da Silva
On May 27, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: "-?" is a MSDOS-ism. you mean of course "/?" :) From MS-DOS 2.11 through MS-DOS 5 there was a variable "SWITCHAR". If it was set to "/" (the default) the switch character was

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread Aaron J. Grier
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > "-?" is a MSDOS-ism. you mean of course "/?" :) -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agr...@poofygoof.com "silly brewer, saaz are for pils!" -- virt