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The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Re: The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Post by terofle »

> The ~ and \ have moved to the usual location of the Backspace. Working exclusively on UNIX systems now, I don't mind the \ being harder to reach. I could understand a Windows user finding this irritating.

This guy has clearly never used LaTeX.

I mapped my \ to a more accessible location and it improved my typing speed by factor 2 or so.

Re: The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Post by consp »

terofle wrote: post #3

> The ~ and \ have moved to the usual location of the Backspace. Working exclusively on UNIX systems now, I don't mind the \ being harder to reach. I could understand a Windows user finding this irritating. This guy has clearly never used LaTeX. I mapped my \ to a more accessible location and it improved my typing speed by factor 2 or so.

Also as a vim user I would like the esc instead of the control here but that is non Unix standard as far as I know. I also use Windows quite a lot so having the \ somewhere close is nice to have.

Though I really dislike the meta key next to the space-bar but that is just me not being old enough to have used non IBM compatible keyboards.

As you might have noticed, everybody's preference is different.

Re: The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Post by tyingq »

There are several Sun to USB adapters if you really want to use an old Sun keyboard on a PC or Mac.

There even used to be inline devices that filtered the L1-A /STOP signal. Because if you hit that key on a Sun server console, it paused the whole server.

Re: The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Post by globuous »

terofle wrote: post #3

> The ~ and \ have moved to the usual location of the Backspace. Working exclusively on UNIX systems now, I don't mind the \ being harder to reach. I could understand a Windows user finding this irritating. This guy has clearly never used LaTeX. I mapped my \ to a more accessible location and it improved my typing speed by factor 2 or so.

I’ve been wanting to config emacs to change my special char layout from major modes to major modes. As such, i could make my backslash key easily accessible from latex-mode, but out of the way in python-mode. Get my backquote easily accessible from lisp-mode, but out of the way in other modes.

I feel like if i only have a few special chars to move around between modes, it should be easy to learn.

I’ve already inherited my xkbmap and changed the special char to something that suites me more and its been better on my fingers.

Re: The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Post by dijit »

consp wrote: post #4
terofle wrote: post #3

> The ~ and \ have moved to the usual location of the Backspace. Working exclusively on UNIX systems now, I don't mind the \ being harder to reach. I could understand a Windows user finding this irritating. This guy has clearly never used LaTeX. I mapped my \ to a more accessible location and it improved my typing speed by factor 2 or so.

Also as a vim user I would like the esc instead of the control here but that is non Unix standard as far as I know. I also use Windows quite a lot so having the \ somewhere close is nice to have. Though I really dislike the meta key next to the space-bar but that is just me not being old enough to have used non IBM compatible keyboards. As you might have noticed, everybody's preference is different.

There are many ways to rebind caps lock to be escape on press and control when used in combination with another key. Karbiner elements on macos and xcape on Linux come to mind immediately. But some keyboard firmwares are programmable enough to do it themselves too.

However. What I found best as a vim user was to use ^[ as escape. It has the added bonus of actually being faster to process by vim too.

Re: The Joys of Unix Keyboards

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Post by krilly »

terofle wrote: post #3

> The ~ and \ have moved to the usual location of the Backspace. Working exclusively on UNIX systems now, I don't mind the \ being harder to reach. I could understand a Windows user finding this irritating. This guy has clearly never used LaTeX. I mapped my \ to a more accessible location and it improved my typing speed by factor 2 or so.

I rather like the position of \ and / in the ISO layout. \ is on the right of lshift and / is on the left of rshift. It feels nice and consistent.
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