From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Florian Kaufmann" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: special keyboard, ctrl below spacebar Date: 6 Nov 2006 16:18:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1162858694.499528.250520@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162860027 22942 80.91.229.2 (7 Nov 2006 00:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 07 01:40:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhF0n-0007CQ-2o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:40:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhF0m-0002rx-Kd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:40:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.62.21.246 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1162858699 10258 127.0.0.1 (7 Nov 2006 00:18:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:18:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.62.21.246; posting-account=Z44m8A0AAADexMuhVGiPev7CXD9-sJX0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142947 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38565 Archived-At: Hello Since I moved Ctrl to Caps Lock on my 'US windows' keyboard, I am wondering how I still could improve accessibility to modifier keys as ctrl, meta, shift (, hyper, super). I thought it would be great to have 2 of these left and right to the middle below the space bar. With the left pinkie and the two thumbs the modifiers would be reachable very easy, and while pressing any of these modifiers you still could reach easily almost any other key with the other fingers. A similar idea would also be to make the space bar much shorter, and place the two new keys at the side of the now shorter space bar. The new keys would be reachable more easily than alt is now beside the long space bar. Now I wonder if such keyboards already exist, or if somebody knows how I could alter an existing keyboard and make the two additional keys myself. I googled a bit, but didn't found anything. Any ideas? Greetings Flo