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geekhack Community => Ergonomics => Topic started by: sandywind on Mon, 16 May 2016, 07:22:22

Title: Delete or backspace on HHKB?
Post by: sandywind on Mon, 16 May 2016, 07:22:22

How many of you have a HHKB have set it to output BS when Delete is pressed, maybe specifically to correct mistakes on the last typed word?

I have not, but I wonder whether it is more ergonomic to repeatedly type BS to correct a mistake, or type left arrow,  correct, then End, or even select the word backwards and type over, on editors that allow it, and disregard the question entirely.

Title: Re: Delete or backspace on HHKB?
Post by: davkol on Mon, 16 May 2016, 08:17:43

This is more related to the original design of the HHKB. Old unix machines had a Delete key, instead of Backspace; see, for example, Sun Type 3 (http://hack.org/mc/images/type3-keyboard.jpg).

If you used Emacs (as Eiichi Wada did), Ctrl-D would be delete and Ctrl-H backspace.