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From: lgbeard <lgbeard@bullreguard.nut>
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Subject: Re: lefthanded Items
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On 27 Dec 2002 17:17:00 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@haey.ifi.uio.no> wrote:

>[lgbeard]:
>>
>>   Original from dp switch to a left handed keyboard
>>   .--------------------------------------------------------------------.
>>   |   <> <> <>   [P|S|P] [E] [F1|F2|F3|F4] [F5|F6|F7|F8] [F9|10|11|12] |
>>   |                                                                    |
>>   | [*][/][N][-] [I|H|U] [`][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][-][=][<-BS] |
>>   | [9][8][7]|+| [D|E|D] [<->][Q][W][E][R][T][Y][U][I][O][P][{][}][_\] |
>>   | [4][5][6]|_|         [CapL][A][S][D][F][G][H][J][K][L][;]['][Entr] |
>>   | [1][2][3]|E|   [^]   [shift][Z][X][C][V][B][N][M][<][>][/][^shift] |
>>   | [0   ][.]|_| [<|v|>] [ct] [al][________________________][al]  [ct] |
>>   '--------------------------------------------------------------------'
>
>why not switch to a neutral layout?
>
>  .------------------------------------------------.
>  | [es][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][-][=][\][`] |
>  | [tab][Q][W][E][R][T][Y][U][I][O][P][{][}][del] |
>  | [ctrl][A][S][D][F][G][H][J][K][L][;]['][enter] |
>  | [shift][Z][X][C][V][B][N][M][,][.][/][shf][fn] |
>  |     [alt][<>][_________________][<>][alt]      |
>  '------------------------------------------------'
>
>I use this at work, it's lovely since it takes so little space and has
>a wonderful feel.  it helps to be a hardcore vi (hjkl) and/or
>Emacs-user (C-b C-n C-p C-f) though.

A neutral layout with out all the other junk would be great.
will look into it.


obascii -- writing left to right
 __________
|          | <-- Top left corner
|          |
|          | 
|__________| <-- Top right corner

lgbeard