More observations follow.
- VI keyboard is redundant if you prioritize Escape placement
- Ortho-linear?
- How about grid or matrix?
- The mouse keys are toys, don’t need them
- Volume control is a toy, the OS can do it
- Helps make it work well cross-platform, too
- I need to color the keys by my classification of how I see them or how Emacs sees them
- EMACS MODIFIERS
- Ctrl
- Including Escape?
- Emacs can use OS modifiers, that is user’s call
- Include every permutation?
- OS MODIFIERS
- Ctrl
- Alt
- Gui
- Include every permutation?
- Symbol 2 and Symbol 3
- Use the character in the 2nd or 3rd column of the cap
- Shift can modify it
- Allows APL keyboard or more
- Function
- Laptops have them
- Let arrow keys be page up for example
- How is this different than Symbol2 and Symbol2???
- Meh
- Seems like a good thing for generic programs
- Required with More f keys?
- Yea definitely, still useful for every OS
- Required with More f keys?
- Seems like a good thing for generic programs
- SYMBOLS
- Latin
- Greek
- Unicode
- F keys
- COMPUTER
- Print screen
- Do I need scroll lock?
- Do I need pause/break?
- DESTRUCTORS
- Backspace and delete
- Insert
- Movement
- Arrow keys move cursor in buffer
- Return and space insert symbols, but they are more about movement than the character, kind of
- EMACS MODIFIERS
- Bigger than 8×16?
- Nice to use more
- Don’t want to clash with other vendor offerings
- Scope helps define priorities; without it include all of Unicode
- Include Greek and APL?
- Personal preference
- Intriguing
- Can re-image firmware anyway, so it’s a question of keycaps and firmware, not the keyboard itself
- Labels keys with names instead of actual signal
- Make fonts symbols take up space of entire cap
- Keyboards
- Insert symbols into buffer
- Modify the buffer
- Move point to different locations in the buffer
- Tell the OS things
- Change buffer modification mode
- Is it true that everything keyboards do is to provide characters that might be modified?