Is that left control key actually cut out like a caps lock key, as the image conveys? That's pretty stupid. I don't have any Sun Type 3 layout keyboards yet, but I'm sure I'd love the layout.
Unicomp will give you a non-stepped key for there.
Finding a non stepped key is nearly impossible.Oh... It is a JIS layout Right Shift key he is using for non-stepped "Caps Lock"! Luck!
Read on webwit's quest here: http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/?mid=photo&search_target=title&search_keyword=quest&document_srl=1874062
I have found Unix/Linux users to be rather picky about their keyboards.
The whole "Unix needs CTRL to the left of A" is something I don't get at all.
Quite so. Everyone¹ needs CTRL to the left of A.
Unix users are more likely to use CTRL for its intended purpose, rather than² following the godawful Microsoft convention of overloading it as a menu shortcut key.
¹Unconventional ergo layouts excepted.
²Or, in the case of certain Linux-oriented software of questionable taste, in addition to
I have found Unix/Linux users to be rather picky about their keyboards.
If you were designing a new keyboard layout, what would you put there?
At least Microsoft came up with that OTHER useful key.Show Image(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5064578803_16583f8697_z.jpg)
²Or, in the case of certain Linux-oriented software of questionable taste, in addition to
A windows key.
Nah, just kidding Linux folks.
The whole "Unix needs CTRL to the left of A" is something I don't get at all.
Try using Emacs on a normal keyboard, then get back to us.
Woody, you're right, there is no "official" UNIX layout. But simply based on frequency of use, which do you think should be left of A, caps lock or control?
And yes, I've tried the "normal" layout, and hitting it with my palm doesn't work well for me, at all. Especially since on many laptop boards, it's not the lower left corner key.
I understand what you're saying though. But the fact is, emacs especially is just painful on the average board, unless you remap control. Otherwise, you're constantly curling your pinky in a really weird fashion, and eventually it just hurts. You can say this hardly has any ground, and that's fine, you're entitled to your opinion, regardless of how useless it is.
Do software development, technical writing, or similar, and then we can talk. Programming, writing a document in LaTeX (or even just HTML), these are so keyboard centric, and emacs/vi/VS all have useful keybindings, and all of them work better on these "UNIX" style boards (so called because it wasn't until windows and mac that the 101 layout became what it was).