> If I recall correctly Rob Pike's comments in this forum a long time > ago apropos the issue of customisation, I would suggest that such a > chording pad would be more frustrating than useful. It goes almost > without saying that the generality of such a device lends itself to > insane re-configuration by each user, with dramatic, if potentially > humorous results.
i think it's hard to say without doing an experiment. there is no reason one needs to use all the combinations. so it would be interesting to add a forth button. perhaps one could disambiguate between Look and Open. (how many times have you had to play tricks because there is a symbol wumpus and file wumpus?) > Consider that there are twelve function keys on the conventional > keyboard and Plan 9 uses none of them. Nevermind the new keyboards > with the full Jumbo Jet console on them. that's because they're not standard. you can use them if you map them with /dev/kbmap. cpu% cat fkeys 0 59 '☺ 0 60 '☹ ☺ erik
