From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jmg3000@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: keyboard for emacs? Date: 28 Dec 2006 10:36:07 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1167330967.075031.210150@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167331234 24446 80.91.229.10 (28 Dec 2006 18:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 28 19:40:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H00B4-0002Q7-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H00B3-0001jo-WD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.1.159.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1167330972 24909 127.0.0.1 (28 Dec 2006 18:36:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:36:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.1.159.253; posting-account=0jymeQwAAAALbReIpIl6kgFFa_Xdu9Pp Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144382 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:39984 Archived-At: B. Smith-Mannschott wrote: > 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 > I'll 2nd that. I saved up and bought one for work and one for home (got the PS/2 models b/c the USB hadn't been released yet). Using them with the dvorak layout too. Best gear I ever bought. Hope to never have to go back to a ``conventional'' keyboard. There's an emacswiki page on this keyboard, btw: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/KinesisKeyboard ---John