Clicky Keyboards
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Shawn Blanc[^]:
As someone who writes for a living it befuddles me why I never thought to research a proper keyboard. As a computer-nerd-slash-writer, I am always looking and advocating for the right tools. But for years, I have always equated “writing tools” with “software” — I own more text editors than I have fingers to type with — but it never dawned on me until recently that a good keyboard could be equally as important as a good text editor.
You've got your QWERTY in my WYSIWYG!
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Shawn Blanc[^]:
As someone who writes for a living it befuddles me why I never thought to research a proper keyboard. As a computer-nerd-slash-writer, I am always looking and advocating for the right tools. But for years, I have always equated “writing tools” with “software” — I own more text editors than I have fingers to type with — but it never dawned on me until recently that a good keyboard could be equally as important as a good text editor.
You've got your QWERTY in my WYSIWYG!
I use an IBM KB-6323[^] from 1997 on my primary system -- it's very nice :cool: . I also have a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800[^] (and mouse) for when I bring a laptop home from work -- it's dreadful, but it's better than the laptop keyboard X| . The two main problems I have found with the Microsoft keyboard are: 0) Black keys are hard to see in low light and grey symbols on black make it worse. 1) There is no space between the editing keypad and the other keys -- I spend a lot of time with my hand resting on the keyboard with the thumb and pinky placed beside the left- and right-arrow keys.
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Shawn Blanc[^]:
As someone who writes for a living it befuddles me why I never thought to research a proper keyboard. As a computer-nerd-slash-writer, I am always looking and advocating for the right tools. But for years, I have always equated “writing tools” with “software” — I own more text editors than I have fingers to type with — but it never dawned on me until recently that a good keyboard could be equally as important as a good text editor.
You've got your QWERTY in my WYSIWYG!
Thank you for talking about keyboards. I would desire a keyboard driver which clicks through the loudspeakers, because sometimes a window popups at which the keyboard input is lost. The second, I asked often is the possibility to control the release interval of the SHIFT-key and CTRL-key. While my typing it occurs often that capital letters persist although my finger has released the SHIFT-key. Good luck Erhy