Re: keyboard for emacs?

["B. Smith-Mannschott" <benpsm@gmail.com>]

On Dec 27, 2006, at 03:32, Ronald wrote:

> Is today's keyboard suitable for using emacs?

The best keyboard I've found for using emacs has to be my kinesis  
contoured keyboard [1].

   [1] http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured_usb.htm

This is primarily because control and alt (meta) are located within  
easy reach of my thumbs (along with space, delete, backspace,  
enter ...) and a few other keys. I have the two primary emacs  
modifiers (control, meta) in easy reach of both hands. No need to  
hunt for that pesky escape key.

That said, I can work with a happy hacking keyboard comfortably  
because the control key is just next to the A, and I've remapped my  
macbook's caps lock key to function as a second control key. That's  
also satisfactory.

It would be very different (i.e. craptastic) if I were unable to  
remap control, particularly since the macbook has an [fn] key in the  
corner where one might expect to find control.

// ben