From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 40dcf9c2ab 4/5: read-multiple-choice: Display "SPC" instead of " "
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:47:37 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8W7y2jeEc_H1ti7Rg4a9vPF4E0XT2LWeGCHqj2ThXBwUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkt1ate=8N-5c=+oXMgNuTXWE8kT=z1jfyptkmtdJmvEA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 03:42, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
> Yup, so I added "(the space bar)".
By the way, must you call it *the* space *bar*?
You’re probably assuming the currently dominant keyboard design where
there is a single space key that is somewhere between 5 and 8 units
long, but this is not the only possible and not the most efficient
design, which gives both thumbs a single function — to separate words.
Many keyboard enthusiasts today build keyboards that utilize thumbs
more efficiently, placing 3 to 8 keys in an arc or a cluster under
each thumb. An Emacs user especially benefits from such a layout
because all modifiers can be made so much more accessible. For these
designs, space keys are normal-sized (1, 1.25, sometimes 1.5u), and
there might be two of them so it might not be technically correct to
talk about “the” space key.
I therefore propose “(space key)”.
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