Oh, but it has. Long since.
https://ceratech.co.uk/collections/left-handed-1
https://a4tech.com/product.aspx?id=137
#Maltron even long since went to the extreme of doing a left-hand-*only* keyboard. No, I have no idea why the letter U gets to be special and done with the thumb.
https://maltron.com/store/p1/Maltron_Single_Hand_Keyboards_-_UK_English.html
'Menu' is, however, already a different key, usually to be found next to the right GUI key at location A11 on the #ISO9995 layout.
The 'Super' key from the 1970s Space-Cadet keyboard long pre-dates the 'Windows' key from Microsoft's 1990s Windows keyboards. It is indeed a bit misleading to conflate the two, and confuses the Hell out of novices looking for 'Super' when their doco says to use it.
The irony of using 'Super' as the name is twofold. First: The Space-Cadet keyboard that people wistfully want only had 100 keys, fewer than even an old 101-key U.S.A. Model M keyboard, let alone a modern 124-key Windows keyboard, with its Internet+multimedia keys and 8 electrically and wire-protocol distinct modifiers.
Second: Things like the USB HID specification avoid trademarks like 'Windows' & 'Apple' anyway, calling the two keys (usages 0xE1 and 0xE7 on the keyboard page) the left and right 'GUI' keys.
#ComputerKeyboards #retrocomputing #USBHID #HumanInputDevices
I knew that there was #HJKL navigation and #WASD navigation, and some of the full-screen utilities in the #nosh toolset support both.
I read that there's also QAOP, which alas contradicts the conventional use of 'q' that those utilities already have, and ESDF which alas overlaps WASD.
One cannot be all things to all people, and it seems excessive to make this configurable somehow when they're only limited-use bonuses over just using the normal arrow keys.
I've heard of HJKL and WASD. I've never encountered QAOP. I'm going to look that one up.
… (Looks at Hacker News.) …
Turns out there's ESDF too. Heh!
Having to hold the #FnKey down all of the time defeats the nature of #NumericKeypads, I find. Part of the point, surely, is not to have to hold a modifier down whilst typing to do lots of numbers.
Although @Jayenkai can argue, at least, that pressing Fn means that one is pushing down on the keyboard on both sides of the knee and keeping things in balance. (-:
Speaking as someone who does not enjoy them, I diffidently suggest that you might not need it even now. (-:
I have a collection of add-on #NumericKeypads . One of these days I'll find someone flogging a cheap Canon DK1000i so that I can add it to the collection.
Not nearly enough modifiers added there for what is obviously a very simple action. They should definitely require that you simultaneously pull the clutch lever too. (-:
And if "Meta" isn't Alt for them, what key *is* it?
One has to love a "universal format" that uses a key that is pretty much universally *not present on* keyboards, and is variously understood as a range of different approximations.
Whose notice is this?
As we all know, on proper keyboards the [Ctrl] key just unsets bit 6, so Ctrl+A becomes SOH and so forth. The Apple HI guidelines never happened, and everyone lives in the U.S.A. or uses a BBC Micro. (-:
Importantly, Ctrl+@ becomes NUL. This is [Ctrl]+[2@] with a U.S.A. keyboard layout.
But many European keyboard layouts swap the ["] and [@] positions.
So what should NUL be then?
Reading your keyboard map for the answer is cheating. (-:
@robpumphrey The sad thing is that PCs have had separate Return and Enter keys since the 1980s.
@Domesticated_Pagan is seeking fellow people interested in something called "F1".
Personally, I think that it is a solid and reliable function key, and often a helpful one. (-:
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