From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: srjones05@yahoo.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Re: special keyboard, ctrl below spacebar Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:30:06 -0400 Message-ID: <15501188.1209526206518.JavaMail.root@wombat.diezmil.com> References: <87u01behhl.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> Reply-To: srjones05@yahoo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209530864 29486 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2008 04:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:47:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 30 06:48:19 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jr4Et-0000DB-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:48:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jr4EC-0000d1-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jr31J-0004ya-3C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:30:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jr31E-0004vN-19 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:30:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51881 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jr31D-0004vH-Rw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from wombat.diezmil.com ([209.190.27.106]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jr31D-0000yZ-HE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from wombat.diezmil.com (wombat.diezmil.com [127.0.0.1]) by wombat.diezmil.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3U3U6f9001778 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:30:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87u01behhl.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:45:25 -0400 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:53641 Archived-At: -- Malte Spiess wrote : "Florian Kaufmann" 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 _______________________________________________ help-gnu-emacs mailing list help-gnu-emacs@gnu.... http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs -- This message was sent on behalf of srjones05@yahoo.com at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org/5300954.html