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It surely can be used, but the lack of modifier keys would make the experience a lot worse than with an usual keyboard. Cut and paste seems to have buit-in sho

by hrktb 12y ago

It surely can be used, but the lack of modifier keys would make the experience a lot worse than with an usual keyboard. Cut and paste seems to have buit-in shortcuts, I'm not sure about things like cmd+space, ctrl+tab etc. There don't even seem to be an escape key.

cben 12y ago
https://waytools.com/products/textblade/2/numbers-symbols https://waytools.com/products/textblade/2/numbers-symbols It has Cmd (which I presume doubles as Ctrl for non-Apple?). It has physical Tab and ⌂ in the CapsLock position; the latter suspiciously is marked only in green, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also does Escape. And surely you can map Esc somewhere with https://waytools.com/store/showroom/info/multimap/tablet https://waytools.com/store/showroom/info/multimap/tablet Select and Edit combos (on home row!) let you access arrows, dedicated prev/next word, home/end and replaces Ctrl+ZXCV. So you're using Cmd(/Ctrl) and Shift less in favor of home row chords. To further deprecate Shift (leaving only letters and <>?"), most punctiuation moved to the Fn layer (the green modifier though they don't call it that). That makes a lot of sense, as thumb-activated Cmd and Fn ought to be more comfortable than Shift. The only loss in modifier convenience is numbers requiring Fn but that's cheap price for a row off. => Seems it has almost everything. The big missing modifiers are Alt and Win/Super. OTOH there is a "Media" modifier they don't elaborate on. I hope the remapping software is flexible enough to map at least Alt. There will be a big learning curve for shortcut users, though modifier usage _ought_ to be actually more convenient than standard keyboards. (all theoretic) Hmm, I'm off to try https://superuser.com/questions/96299/mapping-superhjkl-to-arrow-keys-under-x https://superuser.com/questions/96299/mapping-superhjkl-to-a...

by hrktb 12y ago

cben 12y ago

https://waytools.com/products/textblade/2/numbers-symbols https://waytools.com/products/textblade/2/numbers-symbols It has Cmd (which I presume doubles as Ctrl for non-Apple?). It has physical Tab and ⌂ in the CapsLock position; the latter suspiciously is marked only in green, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also does Escape. And surely you can map Esc somewhere with https://waytools.com/store/showroom/info/multimap/tablet https://waytools.com/store/showroom/info/multimap/tablet Select and Edit combos (on home row!) let you access arrows, dedicated prev/next word, home/end and replaces Ctrl+ZXCV. So you're using Cmd(/Ctrl) and Shift less in favor of home row chords. To further deprecate Shift (leaving only letters and <>?"), most punctiuation moved to the Fn layer (the green modifier though they don't call it that). That makes a lot of sense, as thumb-activated Cmd and Fn ought to be more comfortable than Shift. The only loss in modifier convenience is numbers requiring Fn but that's cheap price for a row off. => Seems it has almost everything. The big missing modifiers are Alt and Win/Super. OTOH there is a "Media" modifier they don't elaborate on. I hope the remapping software is flexible enough to map at least Alt. There will be a big learning curve for shortcut users, though modifier usage _ought_ to be actually more convenient than standard keyboards. (all theoretic) Hmm, I'm off to try https://superuser.com/questions/96299/mapping-superhjkl-to-arrow-keys-under-x https://superuser.com/questions/96299/mapping-superhjkl-to-a...