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If you use Alfred/Quicksilver (or your Linux WM's equivalent) you could just map the pedal to that that key combo.

Yes. It's not just Ctrl-[ that does this, Escape does it too. We just typically don't toggle between insert mode / ESC in vim fast enough and enough times to notice it. With the pe…

For those interested, I just posted about my foot pedal project: http://blog.mattgauger.com/blog/2013/08/06/a-simple-text-edi...

I have found the Cherry MX switches to be fairly good and reasonably priced. I did some research to see if anyone had open sourced a design for a 3D printer to print a Spiffchorder…

This is in the works. While it won't be three pedals to start, I realized the simplicity of wiring the Teensy to a digital piano foot pedal (like this: http://www.amazon.com/M-Audi…

I'm really looking forward to getting a Leap Motion device! I think there's a lot of possibility there for programmers that are interested in building a new input method. My thinki…

There is also the GKOS project: http://gkos.com/gkos/index-gkos-com.html

I received a reply on Twitter from Bill Buxton, who worked at Xerox/PARC and other cool places, pointing me at this chapter out of his book: http://www.billbuxton.com/input06.Chord…

I immediately converted the Why the Lucky Stiff chunky bacon melody to your app's name after seeing that it was part of the Rails Rumble.

I'm liking it a lot, as well. We'll see if my other team members want to use it tomorrow at the office. We actually use an intranet tool that we build for clients for project manag…