I love the shift click to get brackets trick, any idea on how to get it on vim?
A Modern Space Cadet
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#12I love the shift click to get brackets trick, any idea on how to get it on vim?
You mean pressing shift to get parens? I doubt it's possible withing Vim. Certainly not within a terminal Vim (the terminal emulator almost certainly wouldn't pass a bare shift through to Vim at all). I'm pretty sure you have to do it at the OS level like this.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean pressing shift to get parens? I doubt it's possible withing Vim. Certainly not within a terminal Vim (the terminal emulator almost certainly wouldn't pass a bare shift through to Vim at all). I'm pretty sure you have to do it at the OS level like this.
Uhm, ok perfect, thanks i'll investigate!
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#14I'm still rocking my 1990 IBM Model-M. These things are truly indestructible.
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#15Has anyone tried remapping a delete key to where the Caps Lock key is found? Is there anyone with a real space cadet keyboard or symbolics keyboard that can comment on using it with vim or emacs?
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#16Edit: Looking at it again, some of the programming related symbol keys are in slightly strange positions and would require some relearning. Plus the right shift is tiny.
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#17Oddly enough the ctrl key in the home row is a Unix thing (I think it's a Sun invention, but I don't recall). On the original space cadet keyboard (and all the Symbolics keyboards), Rub Out is located where modern day Caps Lock is found (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard ). Ctrl is still located on the bottom row. Has anyone tried remapping a delete key to where the Caps Lock key is found? Is the…
The Colemak keyboard layout does that.
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#20I'm still rocking my 1990 IBM Model-M. These things are truly indestructible.