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From: srjones05@yahoo.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: special keyboard, ctrl below spacebar
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:30:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15501188.1209526206518.JavaMail.root@wombat.diezmil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u01behhl.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess>

-- Malte Spiess wrote : 
"Florian Kaufmann" <sensorflo@gmai...> writes:

> 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?

I use a Contoured keyboard by Kinesis:
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/

> Greetings
>
> Flo

Greetings

Malte
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-07  0:18 special keyboard, ctrl below spacebar Florian Kaufmann
2006-11-07  9:25 ` Malte Spiess
2006-11-08  1:47   ` Joe Fineman
2006-11-08 12:30     ` Malte Spiess
2006-11-08 13:45       ` Christopher Kuettner
2008-04-30  3:30   ` srjones05 [this message]

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