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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
Message-ID: <841@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-May-86 12:17:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 20 12:17:42 1986
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In article <661@baylor.UUCP> baylor!peter (Peter da Silva) writes:
[An unattributed quote]:
>> The Arrow keys are in a row: UDLR.  Actually, I find that
>> I can cope with this; arrangement in a diamond is not
>> essential.  However, horizontal arrangement in an order other
>> that UDLR is confusing.
>
>	I much prefer Left & Right to be at the extreme Left & Right
>sides of a cursor row.

For each direction x in {down, left, right, up}, I want the x-arrow key to
be at least as far in direction x as any of the other three arrow keys.  For
a horizontal arrangement, this means LUDR or LDUR.  (The latter is ADM-3a
style.)  Similarly, there are two reasonable (to me) vertical arrangements.

I presume the reason for UDLR is to keep L and R close to each other.  That
can be useful if you tend to use UD and LR separately, I guess.  I suspect
the only arrangement which has a chance of satisfying a large number of
users is the diamond arrangement, or maybe the "collapsed diamond" below.
 U
LDR

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint