From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Malte Spiess Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: special keyboard, ctrl below spacebar Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:25:10 +0100 Organization: Arcor Message-ID: <87u01behhl.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> References: <1162858694.499528.250520@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162892442 5417 80.91.229.2 (7 Nov 2006 09:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 07 10:40:38 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 1GhNRQ-00009a-0s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhNRP-0000JH-Ak for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:40:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.n-ix.net!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pYI1rRPTFH003AtE6DQ4LYbT5F8= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 07 Nov 2006 10:25:04 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63699bf7.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=; 7XaLeo6099^cW`WBF>WQ\BH3Y2G?n7:Ej:D6=jQd8 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:38567 Archived-At: "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