Re: [MiNT] My remarks (2)

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.nu> writes:

> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> > Ctrl belongs outside the character area. Caps lock belongs in it.
>>
>> Why should it be hard to type a frequently used key, but easy to type a
>> never used key?
>
> It has nothing to do with hard to type, but with functional grouping.

If you want functional grouping then you should put letters in one corner
and digits in another corner and symbols in a third corner.  But your goal
should be ease of typing.  Of course, the original typewriter layout was
never designed for ease of typing, but rather to avoid jamming.

Andreas.

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