From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:21:14 +0100 From: Message-Id: <200009271021.LAA21450@pc095.cs.york.ac.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re 2 button mouse + Inferno Topicbox-Message-UUID: 10a75b20-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:17:27 +0200 "Boyd Roberts" wrote: >From: "Rick Hohensee" > >> So your left hand is centered vis-a-vis the spacebar? > >it's funny how these french terms get mangled. in french 'vis-a-vis' >means 'face to face' and not 'regarding'. Ah, I think I understand now. No, my hand is right of the centre. The 'I' key is just about lined up with the end of the spacebar so that home key 'E' is slightly left of the end of the spacebar. This allows easy access to the key to the right of the space (alt-gr) as a delete; and the one right of that (with a windows symbol) as an enter. From memory, it is one or two spaces to the right of the linux map. My numbers have moved to the left side too. I have a load of extra shift and ctrl keys mapped because reaching for them is hard work. Maybe these could be on the mouse?! Or maybe a straight keyboard like this is just the wrong shape for one hand. Maybe we should all be using Twiddlers: a chording keyboard, http://www.handykey.com/