From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey L. Greer" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One handed Emacs Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 01:40:21 GMT Message-ID: <9Qeee.1628$Vu.761@trnddc07> References: <1115223828.856168.133080@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115257105 11067 80.91.229.2 (5 May 2005 01:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 01:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 03:38:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTVJd-0002Iu-Bv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 03:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTVQx-0007Y2-7t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 21:45:47 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc07.POSTED!b2faec16!not-for-mail User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <1115223828.856168.133080@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.238.103.21 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: trnddc07 1115257221 68.238.103.21 (Wed, 04 May 2005 21:40:21 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 21:40:21 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130679 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:26331 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26331 I am on the assistive technology committee for my school district. I have tested a number of one handed keyboards. The best one I have seen is called the Frog Pad manufactured by a small company in Houston, TX. They sell right and left handed models. It takes some getting used to but seemed to be a good solution. NASA is experimenting with it. It is useful for aviators. They can velcro it to their thigh and use it for one handed data entry. The computer sees it as just another PC compatible keyboard so it should work with emacs. Check it out at: www.frogpad.com Jeff rgb wrote: > A co-worker of mine is disabled and only has use of > his right hand. He's never used any advanced editor > so isn't already biased towards any keyboard layout > beyond basic qwerty. Has anyone developed an Emacs > layout more convenient to learn. > The standard layout has most of the most heavily > used chords on the left hand which would make > learning Emacs quite difficult. > If it makes a difference, this is on a Windows system > and I believe he does not use the stickey keys feature. >