- Small changes to a 104 key ANSI skyrocket the price
- Stay close to the standard to make it affordable
Tag: Emacs
If You Like LISP Then You'll Love APL
Notes on Transcription of a talk given by Professor Perlis at the APL’78 Conference held at Foothill College, Los Altos, CA. on 1978-03-29 revealed these gems:
- Contains all of the best attributes of written language
- Contains all of the best attributes of LISP… just more so
- Is a lyrical language
Notes follow…
Emacs Keyboard Design 36: Mainstream 90 Key Emacs Keyboard Layout
- Start with layout 35
- There are only 10 layers total
- Use Fn as a one-shot
- Perfect for F keys
- Use Layer as a toggle
- Choose layer with number keys
- Double-tap to return to base layer
- Remove layer row
90key layout
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Emacs Keyboard Design 35: Mainstream 96 Key Emacs Keyboard Layout
- Going too far from the mainstream pushes the cost up too high
- Let key do things that Emacs knows how to do well to leverage keyboard firmware
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Emacs Keyboard Design 34: Grid Layout Revisited
The latest iteration places space and return well and the modifiers are all present and easily reached. How would it look in a grid layout?
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Emacs Keyboard Design 33: What If Emacs Pinky Isn't Real
Emacs Pinky might be real.
What does a good Emacs keyboard look like if it isn’t, though?
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Why you can't diminish auto-fill-mode
auto-fill-mode is named by auto-fill-function via magnars.
Diminish auto-fill-function instead.
Emacs Keyboard Design 31 and 32: Give Emacs More Logical Modifiers
- Impossible to design and fabricate a custom for a reasonable price in time and money
- Use a XKE-128 instead
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Emacs Keyboard Design 30: Smaller Modifiers
- After 3 years using single-key modifiers on a MBP and HP laptop I can do the same thing here.
- USB spec defines all
Fkeys so use them and see what happens - Get rid of right side of board in the process
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Emacs Keyboard Design 29: More Standard
- The right side keys should remain in ANSI layout
- Complies with POLA
- Returned them
- Put CapsLock above Backspace
- SpaceFn makes you want to use TMK’s awesome firmware
- Remind my self that POLA is still an important goal
- How are people carrying their keyboards?
- A good keyboard body negates needs for a case
- Dell keyboards are a perfect example
- How similar is this to an ANSI layout
- Background color legend
- Green: Identical
- Yellow: Moved
- Turquoise: New
- Red: Removed
- Only the number pad was removed
- Background color legend
- Thoughts
- Every Emacs user who has reconfigured their modifier keys on a Windows or Mac laptop will be OK with this
- Every user who has used an ANSI layout will be OK with this
- Users who value the number pad will not be OK with this
- The modifier clusters make sense