On 7/3/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 7/3/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>> > On 7/3/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The key legends on the layout view have up to 4 symbols, right?
>> >> Left pair are X and Shift-X, right pair are 3lm-X and 3lm-Shift-X,
>> >> where 3lm is the 'third level modifier' key. Works for me.
>> >
>> > What's a "third level modifier" key? I don't think I have one on my
>> > keyboard.
>>
>> <heh>
>> Left-over terminology from prior message:
>> preferences > keyboard > layout options (tab) > third level choosers
>>
>> hmmm, at the moment I don't recall the origin of third level /modifier/,
>> although I do think I like it better than third level /chooser/.
>>
>
> I found something like this by Google search. But who has a keyboard
> with an otherwise unused key to dedicate to this function. I know --
> Windows key. But those are scarce around here.
If you use a key layout with more than 2 glyphs per key, then dedicating
the right-alt or right-ctrl is a reasonable choice. Umm, if you have one
of those, of course.
>
> Or is this another case of control-alt-meta-cokebottle? See
> "cokebottle" in The New Hackers Dictionary, or google for the whole
> 4-word term.
I thought that was right left of the /anykey/ ??
Actually, looking at my Happy Hacking keyboard, it does have Alt keys
both right and left, and also two anonymous keys with a diamond symbol
on them. I must find the documentation and see what the diamond keys
are supposed to do.
carl
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