I really love my Kinesis Ergo Contoured:
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm
Not only did it eliminate my hand and forearm pain, once you're used
to it you can type faster as well! It gives you hand separation, less
impact (long travel and with practice you don't hit the stop), makes
good
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:23:51PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
Civil Service guidelines for new software procurement probably insist on
decent accessibility support[*2], but continuing to use legacy systems
which predate[*3] those guidelines isn't inself illegal.
Actually this isn't the worst
Patrick Mulvany wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:23:51PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
Civil Service guidelines for new software procurement probably insist on
decent accessibility support[*2], but continuing to use legacy systems
which predate[*3] those guidelines isn't inself illegal.
Actually
2009/10/21 Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com:
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
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Philip Potter
philip.g.pot...@gmail.com wrote:
I personally use vim, though if and when Padre gets good I will switch
to that. I'm currently trying to add extract subroutine and rename
variable to it, but it's easier said than done...
I'm pretty sure I saw a
2009/10/22 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Philip Potter
philip.g.pot...@gmail.com wrote:
I personally use vim, though if and when Padre gets good I will switch
to that. I'm currently trying to add extract subroutine and rename
variable to it, but it's
Philip Potter wrote:
2009/10/22 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com:
I'm pretty sure I saw a video demonstrating a working rename-variable
plugin. I believe there were comments along the lines of
's/$old_name/$new_name/' and then the usual arguments over 'works most
of the time' v.s. 'won't work
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21:05PM -0400, jesse wrote:
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
2009/10/22 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21:05PM -0400, jesse wrote:
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
jesse writes:
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
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:53:56AM +0100, Philip Potter wrote:
2009/10/22 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk:
Since when did something being illegal stop it from happening,
especially in government?
Since people were unwilling to stand up for what they lawfully deserve
-- either through
On Wed 21.Oct'09 at 17:44:58 +0100, James Laver wrote:
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
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
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
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
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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