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Some programs from that era have keyboard shortcuts that were comfortably done on those ancient keyboards, but are unnatural enough to cause injuries on modern
by csense 13y ago
Some programs from that era have keyboard shortcuts that were comfortably done on those ancient keyboards, but are unnatural enough to cause injuries on modern keyboards [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_pinky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Emacs_pinky
- Crito 13y agoIn practice I suspect this tends to manifest itself as hassle, as the user remaps their keyboard, rather than damage to the user's hands. At least I hope so. Somewhat related: Long term Vi use has caused my standard right hand position to shift one key left. I don't even use hjkl that much anymore, but Vim (and probably more than a little nethack) have changed how I touch-type with QWERTY.
- derekp7 13y agoI don't have this issue with VI, but I do have that problem with FPS games that use the wasd keys -- I can only use them if I move my left hand to the left one key space. So I end up remapping those control keys one to the right, in games where that is possible.
- lalos 13y agoalso known as path dependence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependency