> hardware keyboard with full keyboard macros Do you use one? Which? I used one, very convenient, in eighties(!) and haven't seen something comparable since.

> hardware keyboard with full keyboard macros Do you use one? Which? I used one, very convenient, in eighties(!) and haven't seen something comparable since. The functionality I had then that I liked was: any key could be programmed to really anything else (except the special "macro" key) -- another key or another sequence of the keys, and I regularly did some action once, recording it with just one "start recording" and one "stop and assign to.." action and after that just "playing" it when needed. It was a huge time / nerves saver at these times, especially because it was fully independent of the programs and even of which OS I've used (I've had to switch between two even then).