Subj : Re: programming and typing
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 09:23 pm

Scott Moore said:

> David wrote:
>> 
>>   I positively hate two things about touch typing though:
>> 
>>   1. Bill Gates/Apple and their respective Windows/Apple keys where
>>      the space between the control and alt keys should be.
>> 
> 
> I perform a "winectomy" on my keyboards by poping the window key OUT,
> and thus disabiling it.

Why bother? It doesn't do anything, no matter how much I press it.

> I get tired of hitting that by accident, its
> useless, and canceling the resulting pointless menu takes extra
> keystrokes.

How odd. I don't get a resulting pointless menu, or indeed any menu at all. 
It's a totally unused key. Perhaps you're using a different OS to me.

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