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And backslashes are among the characters I enjoy typing the least. But other than that I think it looks very interesting.
by yesimahuman 17y ago
And backslashes are among the characters I enjoy typing the least. But other than that I think it looks very interesting.
- barrkel 17y agoI wonder if this isn't just down to keyboard layouts. US keyboards have an extra-big left shift, and a small return key, with the backslash and pipe above the return. UK (and as far as I'm aware, most other Eurpopean) keyboards have a small left shift with the backslash and pipe key just to the left of the Z. The return key is nice and big, hard to miss. The button above the return is the backspace, also nice and big and hard to miss. (And annoyingly, every single Linux installation I have ever used has mis-mapped the Dvorak translation of the key to the left of the Z, mapping it to < and >, rather than \ and |. I often have to faff about with loadkeys layouts and xmodmap layouts for several hours every time I do a new install.)
- Tuna-Fish 17y agoI just want to add that the guy who designed the Finnish (same as Swedish) keyboard layout obviously held a deep grudge against c programmers -- most non-letter symbols that you need are just awful to access. Backslash is [Alt Gr] amd [+].
- zokier 17y agoYes, the finnish/swedish keyboard layout is just horrible today, when most stuff is designed to be used with US keyboard. That's why I use modified* US-intl layout on my computer even if its bit confusing to use other computers. *added ä and ö keys, as they are needed in finnish.