DIY control pedal on Linux

Re:DIY control pedal on Linux by Rogach on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:58AM (#10185667)

I use it exactly for that, and it really helps me when navigating in Emacs (holding Ctrl with pedal is much easier than holding it with your pinky). Your experience may vary, of course.

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Re:DIY control pedal on Linux by aidenn0 on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @12:40PM (#10186725)

Interesting enough, the ancestors of emacs were on a keyboard where the meta and control keys were in the lower-left corner, and it was somewhat expected that you would move your entire hand to do chording on those while using the other hand for the letter keys.

I imagine that resulted in far less pinky-strain.

Knight keyboard: http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/Knight1.jpeg

Later followed up with the space cadet keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard which added super and hyper.

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Re:DIY control pedal on Linux by userbinator on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:26AM (#10185849)

VIM users may also benefit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4141410

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Re:DIY control pedal on Linux by Rogach on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:30AM (#10185873)

That project was my inspiration for this hack :)

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