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I'd like a 200 key keyboard please, will full macro functionality and programability

• StavrosK 7y ago
  Why? I have an 80 key keyboard and even that's too many, since I have a bunch of layer-changing keys.
  • falcolas 7y ago
    Answering for myself: It's another thing I have to remember, or visually look for. I have to remember the state of the keyboard, I have to remember even more key chords, or both. I have enough cognitive load going on keeping a programming, gaming, or design stack going in my head to add another load keeping track of the status of my input device. Even should the actions become muscle memory (I own, but no longer use, a HHKB and know that muscle memory fits in), that muscle memory will fail me the moment I have to use another keyboard, causing a mental stutter as I consciously override my muscle memory (with the HHKB, that was escape and delete in particular). Moreover, I can feel my way around a keyboard and find all of the keys I could need by the clustering and relative position to the home row. Since I don't rest my hands on the keyboard while typing, this movement is not at all uncomfortable or distracting. That's why I like full keyboards, why even I could find a keyboard with more keys useful.
    • Aloha 7y ago
      Yeah, I used to have a dumb terminal on my desk, and I used the macro functionality inherent to it to semi-automate all sorts of workflows for myself, it was very very helpful.
• mkl 7y ago
  You can have that. Just plug in another one, and write a script that opens the device exclusively and interprets the events so it doesn't send normal keystrokes.
  • Aloha 7y ago
    I don't want a collection of keyboard - I also prefer something that all the macro functionality is inherent to the device, so I dont need a cross platform software, I should just be able to plug the keyboard in to whatever thing I need to use it on, and it should just work.