Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:17749 comp.editors:223 Checksum: 10101 Lines: 17 Path: utzoo!sq!msb From: msb@sq.uucp (Mark Brader) Date: Sun, 3-Jul-88 00:15:18 EDT Message-ID: <1988Jul3.001518.2385@sq.uucp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors Subject: Re: keyboards References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <241@pvab.UUCP> <2086@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <5325@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto > We should do whatever we can to encourage hardware designers to implement > such soft keyboards; this means no mechanical shift-lock keys, among > other things. Argh, no! Give me back my VT100 where I could *tell* the state of the shift lock without having to look all over the keyboard for an LED! And don't talk to me about status lines, either. Tactile feedback, please. Of course, it should be *shift* lock, not *caps* lock as is so common today. I don't want to use the shift key for the ()'s in "a = FOO(BAR(b));"... The real point here is -- for every opinion somebody holds about keyboards, someone else holds the opposite opinion just as strongly. As such, this is a topic more fitted for talk.* than comp.*, and I suggest that it die quickly. Mark Brader, Toronto sed -e "s;??\\([-=(/)']\\);?\\\\?\\1;g" utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com will fix them... -- Karl Heuer