From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Control-C conundrum Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:43:55 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <84lhfq3x1w.fsf@verizon.net> References: <20150604001736.GA1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20150603222121607920564@bob.proulx.com> <20150604152420.GC1917@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20150606114719764101686@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434048623 26332 80.91.229.3 (11 Jun 2015 18:50:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:50:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 11 20:50:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z37YQ-0000j1-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:50:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z37YP-0002rk-Ke for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:50:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8e9cbba39844bd459cb06c8c4ab9ff10"; logging-data="21813"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+6WPbvCttVWlkmYus/oai" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mcS8HfKFG3N50OSg3njyvNkNA3w= sha1:LuSkkG+fTymomOzj9rMyGxTGPJI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212604 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104888 Archived-At: Tim Johnson writes: > Someday, I'd like to spend even more money and get a mechanical > keyboard even better than HHL2. Recommedations are welcome. I have used a Kinesis for many years. They are absurdly expensive, but it's only money. Of particular relevance to Emacs is that both Ctrl and Alt are handy to both thumbs, and the thumbs are used for 10 other frequently used keys. Also, the functions of keys can be interchanged easily by programming the keyboard. The designers have shown some slight recognition of the difference in the length of fingers by moving the pinky column down a bit. But I have wondered for a long time why there are no keyboards that allow users to place each key arbitrarily (with magnets or cement, say) to accommodate their hands -- human hands being notoriously different in relative length. I would pay $1000 for such a keyboard. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Yanks think 200 years is a long time, and Brits think 200 :|| ||: miles is a long way. :||