Re: Re File-specific display mode

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Patrica wails:

> Harry is so right about keyboard layout. Caps Lock next to A and right
> under Tab has to be the DUMBEST design decision ever made.
If you look at the design of a traditional typewriter keyboard, you will
not fail to notice the same array of keys. If you want to talk about
dumb design decisions, I would dial back 120 years or so to the design
of the first typewriters. Far more vexatious than the position of the
caps lock key is the position of the "a" key itself, which is, of
course, struck with, typically, the weakest of the fingers.


Anyhow, if you log into brainsystems.com, you will find freeware that
disables the caps lock key, which of course, so many touch typists hit
when they think they're hitting the tab key.


Notes and asides: The Royal Standard typewriter of ca. 1955 had a tab
key that was to the right of the spacebar. It was elongated vertically
and could be struck with the right palm. (They had brown spackle
finishes and the keys were green plastic, slightly indented to fit the
fingers--an innovation then.) That has always struck me as the exemplar
of "Good Design."




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