Hi Everyone, As most of you probably know, the Dvorak keyboard as originally conceived in the 1930s had the numbers (and many of the punctuation marks) in...
Peter, Some time ago I changed the numbers on my Kinesis-Contoured just for the fun of it. It's not something we really need these days because, today we have...
My 1934 Royal Standard has it. The Royal QuietWriter(??) I bought in about 1961 has it. (My older daughter has that one.) In the early 1970's I got a Camwil...
Ben Cohen
BenC@...
Mar 4, 2005 11:17 pm
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Ben, Yeah, my Dvorak typewriters also have the 7,5,3... sequence. But the original Dvorak punctuation on those machines is baffling to me due to my training on...
I've been wondering, how does one make use of the Dvorak number system? I use a Mac G4 and Dvorak is just a layout I choose. But they give no option of a...
Paul JJ Alix
altkeyboards@...
Mar 11, 2005 2:36 am
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I believe you'd have to hack your layout, as in most OS's the Dvorak implementations does not consider numeric rearrangement....
Carl Pearson
jman@...
Mar 11, 2005 7:12 am
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When you have 6 keys only, all keys are in the 'home row', under your fingers waiting to be pressed. Letters and numbers have 1 to 3 simultaneous keys: A to F...
... in my experience: no. In fact it's easier than with qwerty. And I think I know why: most of the code is identifiers (except for perl, which is line noise...
Not in my experience. I use a dvorak keyboard, with swapped caps (i.e. caps is now a control key) and use emacs. No issues. The Emacs keybindings were never...
... built with comfort or ease anyway that's right, I forgot about keybindings for (~0 & ~kitchen_sink) and The Other Editor. I'm not a vi user (although I've...
Hi! ... No, I wouldn't say so. I'm not using the standard Dvorak though, as I'm swedish and using a localized version called Svorak. And even that one I have...
Magnus Engström
magnus@...
Apr 13, 2005 7:35 pm
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... I don't think so...... but I don't do a whole lot of coding either. Bob ... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ...
Access Systems
accessys@...
Apr 13, 2005 7:44 pm
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... Well, actually, a great deal of the VI keybindings makes more sense in Dvorak. For example, the ctrl+e and ctrl+y bindings which scrolls the buffer up and...
Magnus Engström
magnus@...
Apr 13, 2005 7:49 pm
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... I never encountered a vi implementation that didn't support the arrow keys. Why use hjkl anyway? Caveat: I'm not a real programmer, but I've used vi,...
Hi there, I type with Dvorak for the right hand in English. The keyboard layout comes with Windows 2000. Its very convenient. Howevever all of the available...
I face the same problem when typing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Sorry, I don't know of a good solution. I did, however, change to "shuang1pin1" for the...
(Using Windows, MS Natural keyboard) I have experimented with Dvorak several times in the past 9 years, but it hasn't stuck. Earlier this year I made another...
... It isn't a no-go at all. I do a lot more complicated things with my Dvorak keyboard. I use vim (on Windows called Gvim) as my favourite editor meaning that...
Hi Steven, I had the same problem with Dvorak: I wanted my keyboard shortcuts to still use Qwerty so that editing would be easier and so that my computer games...
Rob Smith
robertadamsonsmith@...
Apr 28, 2005 3:56 pm
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Ulf, This is deviating somewhat from the original post, but: The key that you are referring to, known as VK_OEM_102, is quite usefull. I remapped my 'A' to use...
Rob Smith
robertadamsonsmith@...
Apr 28, 2005 4:38 pm
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Rob, Thanks for the encouragement and the tip. However, from what I see, the scan codes for Ctrl-<key> combinations are *already* the same for both keyboards....
Evidently you have to start with a keyboard whose layout has the control keys arranged in the order that you want. In other words, try loading a QWERTY layout...
Thanks for correcting me Scott! Scott is indeed correct - apologies for the mistake. My willingness to share knowledge was greater than my ability to remember...
Rob Smith
robertadamsonsmith@...
Apr 28, 2005 9:37 pm
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Steven Marzuola wrote:
>What would be really cool is a keyboard remapper that restores these
>functions to the same key positions (Q, J K). Before I start...
Marco, That might work, but one of my (unstated) goals was to confine all the changes to a single layout produced by one program, in this case, MS KLC. I don't...
Interesting observation. I find that the letters R, N, L, and S are frequent sources of mistakes. Perhaps this phenomenon is a vestige of many long years of...
Scott, Your comments about relative frequencies and errors got me thinking ... How long have you been using Dvorak? If you are still making mistakes after a...
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