On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:06:29PM +1000, Van L wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > There are always 3 entities at play here:
> >
> >     ASCII-control  |  GUI key   |  GUI control-modified-key
> >     ---------------------------------------------------
> >        TAB         |  tab       |  control i
> >        ESC         |  escape    |  control [
> >        RET         |  return    |  control m
> >        LF          |  linefeed  |  control j
> >        ...
> 
> The fingering for column-3 with thumb over space
> is natural and comfy.
> 
> Using the keyboard on the Lenovo Thinkpad A485 as
> reference and right shifting the right palm such
> that the thumb is over each of the three modifier
> keys with fingerings also right shifting has potential for smooth ergonomical
> transition from right handed mouse to keying
> combinations with one hand on the right side of
> the keyboard.

Until you've got a German keyboard layout, where you need yet
another modifier (AltGr) to reach [, ], \ and |.

I'm sure there are multitude of other language-specific keyboard
layouts sharing that weakness...

But I didn't want to open /that/ can o' worms -- just to raise
a bit of awareness.

Cheers
-- tomás