Agile keyboard design rocks. You slowly whittle away at the thousands of options that you think you want. You slowly whittle away at the hundreds of features that you need. You slowly whittle away at reality and cost. You eventually end up with what you didn’t know that you needed.
Emacs users want and need a keyboard that
- Is available everywhere
- Is inexpensive
- Is supported first class on Linux, OS X, and Windows
- Is familiar
- Everybody learned on an ANSI 104 keyboard and knows it well
- Leverage this
- Good for sales as “just another keyboard”
- Leverage this
- Everybody learned on an ANSI 104 keyboard and knows it well
- Refinements and preference are
- Make it easy to track changes
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