James Laver wrote:
On 21 Oct 2009, at 01:24, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PS for the real layout nerds, http://colemak.com/ is a better choice
than Dvorak if you're going to start from scratch
http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ is worth a mention too. I got
myself up to about one-quarter-speed on
Jacqui Caren-home writes:
James Laver wrote:
On 21 Oct 2009, at 01:24, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PS for the real layout nerds, http://colemak.com/ is a better choice
than Dvorak if you're going to start from scratch
http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ is worth a mention too. I
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
Maybe I should switch to Emacs ...
Same deal. I think I started binding them to different keys in order
to use the same finger positions I was used to under QWERTY.
--James
Jacqui wrote:
James Laver wrote:
On 21 Oct 2009, at 01:24, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PS for the real layout nerds, http://colemak.com/ is a better choice
than Dvorak if you're going to start from scratch
http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ is worth a mention too. I got
myself up to
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
Before you switch keyboards, I think there is an important question about how
often you are obliged to use a standard qwerty keyboard. I worked all over
Europe for a bit using a large number of the European variations on
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM, gbjk g...@thermeon.com wrote:
I've been looking for a datahand pro II.
http://www.datahand.com/products/proii.htm
I don't have one of those but I do have a Kinesis Advantage,
James Laver writes:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
Maybe I should switch to Emacs ...
Same deal.
Except it wouldn't be for me, cos I don't already know Emacs!
I think I started binding them to different keys in order to use the
same finger
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
I could cope with Vim having most command keys in different places; it's
only h, j, k, l that are problematic, because of their use as cursor
keys, in a single block on the home row. From what I understand Emacs
doesn't do
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Lesley B lesl...@pgcroft.net wrote:
Buffy and Willow have ponies? When did that happen?
Around about the time they started having pie and pint lunches. HTH.
--James
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:05:28 +0100, James Laver wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
Before you switch keyboards, I think there is an important question
about how often you are obliged to use a standard qwerty keyboard. I
worked all over Europe for a
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Lesley B lesl...@pgcroft.net wrote:
Buffy and Willow have ponies? When did that happen?
20th June 2001.
http://search.cpan.org/~dcantrell/Acme-Pony-1.1.2/lib/Acme/Pony.pm
Mark.
Problem then comes with people who need to help you on your computer. I
often help a tester here who has a Natural split keyboard, and find
it tough, but doable (I used to use a natural years ago, the problem is
using a Natural from a sideways position or standing position while at
Chris Jack wrote:
I had been seeing an osteopath who pointed out
My interest in this thread is two fold.
1) I write or edit a lot of code. Why should I spend my days typing
many repetitive words over and over. Does anyone here remember
spectrums or ZX81's? :-)
2) My sister has a
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:32:46 -0400, jesse wrote:
Problem then comes with people who need to help you on your computer. I
often help a tester here who has a Natural split keyboard, and find
it tough, but doable (I used to use a natural years ago, the problem is
using a Natural from a
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Matt Sergeant
mserge...@messagelabs.com wrote:
True-ish. If you occasionally glance at the keys it really screws you
over though :)
Well unless you're buying labels to stick on the keys you aren't going
to be able to look down on Dvorak, and I'd hope that by
James Laver wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
It also has the advantage of no numeric keypad - so there's significantly
less travel between keyboard and mouse.
That's distinctly not an advantage for those of us who type numeric
IDs into
Jacqui Caren-home writes:
My interest in this thread is two fold.
1) I write or edit a lot of code. Why should I spend my days typing
many repetitive words over and over. Does anyone here remember
spectrums or ZX81's? :-)
You shouldn't; you should use an editor which has completion on
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:32:15 +0100, James Laver wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Matt Sergeant
mserge...@messagelabs.com wrote:
True-ish. If you occasionally glance at the keys it really screws you
over though :)
Well unless you're buying labels to stick on the keys you aren't
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:50:19PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
A friend with RSI has a keyboard he can use fine, but needs to avoid
mousing. Unfortunately[*1] whoever wrote the bespoke software used by
his branch of the civil service didn't bother with keyboard access for
many features.
In the
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM, jesse je...@fsck.com wrote:
In the US, that's ~illegal[1]. The UK doesn't have a similar law?
[1] http://www.section508.gov/
We have the disability discrimination act which makes it similarly
illegal. It also makes it illegal to develop a website that isn't
Smylers wrote:
You shouldn't; you should use an editor which has completion on words
which are used in your project.
I use a few with completions - with no one being best for the various languages
I use.
Which brings up what perl editors do people use and why?
FYI:
Currently writing a js
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