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Started by aglew
Tue, 20 May 1986 20:06
Brackets
Author: aglew
Date: Tue, 20 May 1986 20:06
Date: Tue, 20 May 1986 20:06
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While we're on keyboards: I think that a case can be made for putting all
matching brackets on adjacent keys, near to each other. The keyboards that
have
|---|---|
| { | } |
| [ | ] |
|---|---|
start off right, but putting < and > above , and . breaks the pattern (and,
yes, there are quite a few people who use less-than and greater-than as
brackets).
While we're at it, where should properly formed left and right quotation
marks be put, or, if not on the keyboard, how should they be generated?
(no, back-quote and single quote do not always match).
Re: Brackets
Author: guy
Date: Sun, 25 May 1986 22:45
Date: Sun, 25 May 1986 22:45
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> While we're on keyboards: I think that a case can be made for putting all
> matching brackets on adjacent keys, near to each other. The keyboards that
> have ("{ [", "} ]") start off right, but putting < and > above , and .
> breaks the pattern...
I think a case can also be made for not changing things so that people whose
fingers have learned where < and > are don't have to retrain themselves.
The case for moving < and > is not much stronger than the case for switching
to the Dvorak keyboard, and there doesn't seem to be much motion in that
direction; it would be costly to retrain everybody who touch-types.
> While we're at it, where should properly formed left and right quotation
> marks be put, or, if not on the keyboard, how should they be generated?
> (no, back-quote and single quote do not always match).
If you're referring to the ASCII "`" and "'" characters, put them where
almost everybody else puts them. Put double-quote and "'" on a key to the
right of ": ;", and put "~" and "`" on a key up on the top row.
--
Guy Harris
{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
guy@sun.arpa
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