Borklog: One entry

25 August 2001

DougEDoug and I were talking about keyboards the other day, specifically the placement of the "control" key, which is very important to emacs/unix weenies like us. I have a weird typing style where my pinkies don't do much more than tab, shift, control (left hand) or shift and return (right hand). So curling down to hit the control key isn't a Big Deal.
At a WPLUG installpest, I picked up a Happy Hacking Keyboard (a black version of the "Keyboard Lite" version), which I realy like. It's a quiet keyboard with a very nice feel. (yeah, I have a point to all of this... I think) Its control key is where the caps lock is on most other keyboards. Recently I've been doing some playing with Java GUI programs, and I have now completely confused my poor hands. Now when I move to the powerbook, I hit the caps lock key. When I move back to the HH keyboard, I reach for the meta key at the bottom. Guess I need to re-learn how to wrangle xmodmap to change it.

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