Fiddling around with some of my hotkeys and trying to make my keyboard life a little more comfortable, I couldn’t help but notice that the spacebar is a huge waste of potential. It’s so easily accesible and takes up so much space yet it’s usually only used for a single function.
I already have a bunch of hotkeys around the spacebar (left shift + space, right shift + space, control + space and I’ll probably turn the latter into two distinct left/right control + space hotkeys) and it still feels like I could do so much more with it – if only it would be split so that I had a “left space” and a “right space” to work with. Actually I thought that splitting it into three keys would be even better, left, middle and center.
Are there any keyboards that offer this? Apart from ones like the ErgoDox and so on. Basically a standard ANSI/ISO layout with a split spacebar? If not … why not?!