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Nice, but I've never understood the appeal of reduced keyboards such as this, where even the digits require a modifier key. On the contrary, I would really lik
by blue1 6y ago
Nice, but I've never understood the appeal of reduced keyboards such as this, where even the digits require a modifier key.
On the contrary, I would really like an XL version of the Lisperati with an enormous keyboard, space-cadet-like, that also includes unshifted parentheses.
- butterisgood 6y agoWhy not parentheses on foot pedals?
- convery 6y agoSpeaking of, random advice: If you're doing remote meetings a $3 pedal for push-to-talk is awesome.
- BlackFingolfin 6y agoWhere do you get such a $3 pedal? I only found ones starting at maybe $10, and they seem to be crap based on reviews.
- cestith 6y agoI had a buddy once upon a time who wrote APL or some dialect of it in Emacs. He had two keyboards hooked up to one system and had two foot pedals. IIRC one was Meta and the other Super.
- DonHopkins 6y agoBecause foot pedals are for double double bucky bits! ;) Double Bucky (C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie") Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and Meta side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! (For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits" comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36 bit machines for use by screen editors.)
- jonathanstrange 6y agoThat was my first thought, too. Ideally there should be extra keys for the parens, e.g. a tenkeyless where [] are switched with (). Edit: Oh, and slightly more controversial, ctrl and tab need to be switched, too.
- alpaca128 6y agoThe reason I use one like that: it's more comfortable and ergonomic, and I have the same typing speed but with higher accuracy because I don't need move my hands or wrists. Can you reliably press F2 or ` without looking? I can, and always with the exact same finger movements because the hands don't move. It seems to be a "love it or hate it" thing but I wouldn't go back to normal keyboards. They're fine, just like old touchpads are usable, it's just not a great experience.
- 1MachineElf 6y agoIf you can touch type, they're faster to use because you spend less time moving your hands about between keypresses.
- DonHopkins 6y agoLisp machine keyboards had unshifted parenthesis keys so you could type s-expressions with one hand while holding a Hefty bag full of nitrous oxide in your other hand.