From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Kaszeta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One handed Emacs Date: 05 May 2005 14:41:41 -0500 Organization: University of MN ME Dept Message-ID: References: <1115223828.856168.133080@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <9Qeee.1628$Vu.761@trnddc07> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115322407 25444 80.91.229.2 (5 May 2005 19:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 21:46:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTmI7-0004iX-5V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 21:45:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTmPg-0007y0-OA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:53:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!mpls-transit-01.news.qwest.net!207.225.159.1.MISMATCH!feed.news.qwest.net!lenny.tc.umn.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: lenny.tc.umn.edu 1115322102 16631 128.101.142.156 (5 May 2005 19:41:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@lenny.tc.umn.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130697 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:26349 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26349 "Jeffrey L. Greer" writes: > I am on the assistive technology committee for my school district. I > have tested a number of one handed keyboards. While I have full use of my hands, out of curiousity, I've used a number of one-hand keyboards of a variety of types as well. The best two I've seen are: 1. The half-qwerty keyboard (http://half-qwerty.com). Funky chording concept: the keyboard is a standard keyboard layout, but if the space bar is chorded with a letter or number key, it gives the equivalent key from the same finger position for the other hand (check the web site if this doesn't make any sense). At least for me I was typing reasonably (with ctrl- and alt- keys, even) almost immediately, you just have to learn to hit the space bar and not think about things too much. Downside is that these things are unreasonably expensive, given that you should be able to do the same approach in software alone. 2. The oft-mentioned frogpad (http://www.frogpad.com/Images/frogpads/frogusb-fullview.jpg to see the idea). Fairly nice layout, but you spend a lot of time chording, since every key has at least 5 meanings attached to it. You can't do straight-up ctrl- and alt- keys, it basically treats these as sticky bits. I was typing decently after a week, and might outdo the half-qwerty with it if I practiced. -- Richard W Kaszeta rich@kaszeta.org http://www.kaszeta.org/rich