Re: Backspace direction reversion
Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
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Both me and Steve initially used a Happy Hacking keyboard here in
Japan. The irony of the whole Happy Hacking debate is that neither of
us uses it on a daily basis any more. I'm using a Sun5 keyboard, and
Steve is using some Japanese IBM PC keyboard with a more or less
normal-looking key layout.
`Normal'? `Normal'??? It's _not_ a normal keyboard for any canonical
meaning of normal. The parens are shifted left to be above `8' and
`9', `"' and `＠' are on the wrong keys, the square and curly braces
are on the wrong keys. The key labeled `\' doesn't do anything. The
key labeled `￥' generates `\', there is no `~' key, instead there's
an overline key that generates `~'. The space bar is tiny and crowded
by huge Kanji, Hiragana, and Muhenkan keys. It's offset enough from
where my thumb usually sits that I'm constantly mistyping it.
I used to be a touch typist. Maybe I will be again some day ...