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about the left alt key, the author is an emacs user - so alt position is really important (Alt-X is a very popular shortcut). You can see on the pictures that a
by Ziomislaw 13y ago
about the left alt key, the author is an emacs user - so alt position is really important (Alt-X is a very popular shortcut). You can see on the pictures that alt keys positions do differ, sometimes as much as 1/4 of it's (alt keys's) width - it IS a lot.
- Todd 13y agoThe Alt key is one of the biggest critizisms (even though it's been the standard placement since the IBM-PC 101/104). Every other keyboard alternative shown has the exact same Alt key size and position.
- astrodust 13y agoWherever the key is, you get used to it. Some keyboards put backslash in really dumb places, but a few hours in and you hardly notice. I've used keyboards with backspace where F5 is on modern keyboards, and you know what? You deal.
- philsnow 13y ago"you deal" by remapping the keys, right ? right ? are you going to let a keyboard tell you what to do ?
- astrodust 13y agoYou can't really remap keys on a dumb terminal. You're stuck with what they give you. Your keyboard should be transparent, effortless, and this happens with any layout, no matter how ridiculous, with enough exposure. If customizing helps you, by all means, but some prefer to stick with stock layouts because it doesn't bother them.