Tyler Cipriani Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License Copyright © 2017 Tyler Cipriani https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2015/01/23/toward-a-useful-keyboard-in-x/ Tyler Cipriani ikiwiki 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2015/01/23/toward-a-useful-keyboard-in-x/comment_1_bb8d36315399916f30c7574a525a56fe/ ales.kounovsky 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-01-25T14:34:13Z <p>Great article! I totally agree that keyboard tweaks are worth the effort.</p> <p>I remapped my Caps Lock key to switch between two keyboard layouts (using the LED diode as an indication what layout is active).</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2015/01/23/toward-a-useful-keyboard-in-x/comment_2_b3a72c4a24fe614ce8cb0fea5e9a40f8/ akdor1154 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-01-26T03:11:22Z <p>Out of interest - you actually use auto repeat? What for? I have always considered that feature to have sub-Caps Lock levels of utility.</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2015/01/23/toward-a-useful-keyboard-in-x/comment_3_8225b6eee861f3de58815a0f5fed5d7a/ john.ohno 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-02-02T11:15:44Z <p>Arrow key repeat rates are set by auto-repeat. Navigating to the middle of a long line can be unbearably slow if auto-repeat is off or if the auto-repeat rate is set too low.</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2015/01/23/toward-a-useful-keyboard-in-x/comment_4_2b0a3affe497dd2c19a998ebc07d74ff/ kristianz1212 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-12-02T03:59:15Z <p>Interesting article, but that super-annoying animated favicon image means I can’t keep the tab with your page open.</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2015/01/23/toward-a-useful-keyboard-in-x/comment_5_60c540999c071d3a93a89056bf3f97ca/ mrashley 2017-07-26T17:11:28Z 2017-07-26T17:11:27Z <p>Here’s my two cents:</p> <p>Auto-repeat is silly. Why do you ever need to retype the same letter over and over again? Perhaps a dash for an ASCII line to create a visual bar. Auto-repeating is silly.</p> <p>I’d like all the variants of a letter to appear in a context menu when you hold down a relevant letter. Holding down the dollar symbol? Maybe the euro, pound, etc symbols appear. Holding down the e, all the variations of éêë appear.</p> <p>I think this is a more human approach. I doesn’t require learning, or memorization in the same way that every other method I’ve seen requires. It’s already been shown to us by smartphones etc.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Ashley</p>