Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!ncar!ames!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!mtr From: mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns) Message-ID: <745@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 24 Sep 88 01:53:58 GMT References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <4210@thorin.cs.unc.edu>Distribution: comp Organization: Unix Groupie Lines: 23 In article , jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden) writes: > > It would be nice it the > >caps lock was between the "a" and control keys. > > obviously not an emacs user - I've used keyboards which have this - it drives > me nuts. Actually I am a gnu person. I guess I am used to this layout and can't adjust to the control key that close to the "a". > Has anyone ever noticed that the Sun spacebar is way too big? This puts the > left & right meta keys so far off that it is almost too inconvenient to use > them. Has anyone ever found a use for the those big blocks of function > keys on both sides of the keyboard? They seem to take up a lot of space for > how useless they are, I'd rather have a numeric keypad (yes, I'm sure they > can be reprogrammed but I don't need one *that* badly). And the top ones on the top are too close being as useless as they are. How many times have you hit one when going for say the backspace key? Ugh. And yes, the spacebar is too wide! mtr