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Ask HN: Best coding keyboard?
I've seen the Happy Hacking Keyboard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard). It has the CTRL in the right, UNIX-style place (where other keyboards have the CAPS LOCK key). It also features Fn-key access to function keys and arrow keys near the home row.
That's pretty close to my dream keyboard.
I'll describe my perfect keyboard, maybe you guys can point me to something close:
1)Apple style flat keyboard
2)No numblock, function keys via Fn-1..0 like Happy Hacking Keyboard
3)UNIX-style CTRL key instead of CAPS, like HHK
4)Fn-hjkl for arrow keys (VIM movement)
5)Backspace/del works like on the Mac keyboard
6)Preferrably programmable in some way, to try out new combinations
7)Quiet, no loud clicking
Anyone know something like this?
- cpr 15y agoHow about an Apple flat wireless keyboard using the built-in Keyboard Mapping preferences panel to map caps lock to control? Works great for me.
- srhd423 15y agoI don't like wireless, as I find it very spotty. I've mapped the CAPS to CTRL. But the other stuff is pretty hard - mapping the arrow keys to the home row, for example, which the HHK does (not VIM, which I'd prefer, but close, on the [;'/ keys when depressing Fn). Getting rid of all the function keys and the some of the other stuff is mostly a bonus.
- cpr 15y agoI guess I never use the arrow keys, being a 40-years-of-emacs oldster. Control/meta keys all the way. ;-)