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Re: Can keyboard assignment use Windows key?




Yes, I'll try it as well as messing with the XyWrite keyboard file. (I
took a look at the website and it certainly looks useful.)


Martin

On 1/16/2011 3:34 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Okay, understood. I again recommend Autohotkey, especially for using a laptop keyboard. In it, I have a little code to make the laptop keyboard usable in terms of (mine) having no page up/down and dedicated home/end keys. When I'm using the Mac laptop's keyboard, I hit ctrl-shift-m and it's all configured. When I have my external keyboard, I hit it again and it toggles back to normal. www.autohotkey.com http://www.autohotkey.com/
I agree that that's the solution for home, but the locations of the serious work I have been trying to do have been airplanes, hotel rooms, airports, ... Martin On 1/15/2011 10:58 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Martin wrote: (The reason for my being interested in assigning stuff to Win+key is that on my desktops I have lots of things assigned to keys on the number pad. I've now started doing serious work on a laptop on occasion, where using the number pad is a pain (and some keys are missing altogether, if I'm not mistaken---e.g. the * on the number pad).) Get yourself an external keyboard. And an external monitor. The laptop is only for the innards. (I assume you're doing the serious work at home or in your office, not while on the road.) --Harry Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx
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