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To Bruce: Filco Tenkeyless enquiry
Rajagra:
And with a tenkeyless board you can't even use the numpad Alt 92 trick to generate the \ character.:Cry:
I wish Microsoft would change their US layout driver so the unused extra key from ISO boards acted as a $ key. (Maybe with shift generating ¢). You can bet that within a few months there would be 'enhanced' ANSI layout boards popping up all over the place, hopefully with the extra key in a more sensible place.
ch_123:
Wait, Im confused. Do you want them to change the physical layout of the key, or do want to just have them map the buttons to different things?
Rajagra:
--- Quote from: ch_123;146626 ---Wait, Im confused. Do you want them to change the physical layout of the key, or do want to just have them map the buttons to different things?
--- End quote ---
What *I* want is ANSI keyboards, but with the extra key, placed somewhere that it doesn't spoil the layout.
I like the horizontal Enter key. I like the big Backspace key. Since the \ key is more remote, I like that it is enlarged. I like the big, easy to reach left shift key.
What I do not like is that if I plug a ANSI keyboard into local (UK) computers, it is partially useless because I can't type a \ symbol. (The UK keyboard driver converts that key to be a #, the extra key is the \, and if it isn't present, you can't type it easily.)
I just loaded up the US driver. When using a UK keyboard, both keys (\ and #) return a \. I suppose that's a safe choice, but duplicating a key is wasteful. Why not map something useful to it? A $/¢ combo would make sense, as the US is the native user of the layout.
Lenny_Nero:
\\\\\\ Never really found that the lack of a BS (\) much of a problem, I did spend 5 minutes looking for it the first time I fired up Lemmy \ Vi to sort some code, but just pulled it out of the chr$ map and make a macro¦remap as well as having it in clipmate.
Pipe is just the tilda\altgtr(ctrl+alt) key because in 90+% of things the | is classed the same as the BB ¦ .
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