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On 12/26/2006 09:32 PM somebody named Ronald wrote:
> Is today's keyboard suitable for using emacs?
> 
> I saw an old one today on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi.
> 
> The layout is more suitable for vi and emacs.
> 
> I doubt today's popular keyboard layouts is not mainly for programmers,
> especially UNIX programmers.
> 
> Any good idea?

If you're using GNU/Linux you can program the keyboard to any layout you
want.