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Reading the help docs, I couldn't quite visualize what this "Leap" button was. There's no image (that I saw) of the Canon Cat keyboard on this site. Turns out t
by telchior 5y ago
Reading the help docs, I couldn't quite visualize what this "Leap" button was. There's no image (that I saw) of the Canon Cat keyboard on this site. Turns out the Leap keys are situated directly under the spacebar: https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/28/2665791/jeff-raskin-canon-cat-humane-ui https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/28/2665791/jeff-raskin-cano...
For the way I type, with my thumb angled so the knuckle would hit the Leap key, that would be absolutely infuriating. But it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
It also had a "Learn" key, which seems to have been used for constructing macros. Neat! The example they give for it is a find operation to replace "dog" with "cat". I think the vast majority of people who spend a lot of time in word processors today still don't know how to use macros, and part of that is an accessibility problem; what sub-menu (or sub-sub-menu) would that be hidden in? It's interesting to think of an alternate reality where users learned to create macros as part of using a computer. Maybe we'd have more coders if so.
- TuringTest 5y ago> For the way I type, with my thumb angled so the knuckle would hit the Leap key, that would be absolutely infuriating. But it's an interesting idea nonetheless. I've seen an adaptation[1] of the concept to a standard keyboard that used the Alt + Alt gr keys for Leap back/forward, and the result was quite usable. [1] the Archy project by Raskin's son Aza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software)
- glxxyz 5y agoLeap is basically two dedicated keys for incremental search forwards & backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c