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Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?
- From: Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
- To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:49:46 -0400
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Diana Duncan wrote:
Personally, I love the numeric keypad. I just wish I didn't have to use the dang mouse at all. Which is why I spend the majority of my coding life in vi. I find that touch-typists and anyone with any history of data entry agree with me. Learn to type!
I took a touch typing class on a typewriter before desktop computers existed, and we learned to use those little numbers you see on the top row of your keyboard :-) Why waste 1/3 of the size of the keyboard duplicating keys that already exist? The numeric keyboards are:
1. For people who do data entry, which programming is not.
2. Are easily obtained as an external extra.
Actually I'm a huge vi fan, which is why when I do use the mouse I don't want to have to reach a entire foot to grab it! The only problem with vi is it doesn't handle refactoring :-(
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[internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?,
Steven Champeon, 06/19/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?,
Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 06/19/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, Sil Greene, 06/20/2003
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- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, Jason Laughlin, 06/20/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?,
Diana Duncan, 06/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, Don Sizemore, 06/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 06/20/2003
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RE: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?,
Scott Lundgren, 06/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, Maria Winslow, 06/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, geschwin, 06/20/2003
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Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?,
Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 06/19/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, Joe Reid, 06/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] sun type 6 keyboard (usb) on mac?, Steven Champeon, 06/20/2003
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