Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
by ixtli on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:03PM
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Interesting.
I almost always text on my phone without looking because the visual effect where the selected letter appears above your finger actually makes me slow down. I was never able to use physical phone keyboards as easily as the adaptive software ones on modern phones.
Also I use vi mostly so I only use function keys rarely, in which case I look up.
Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
by beamatronic on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:34PM
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Which phones did you use? I used Palm Treos from 2004 to about 2009 or so, some of the keys even had a bump so you could locate the home row keys. You truly could type somewhat accurately without looking at the keyboard.
edit: wrong year
I used to do it without looking at my phone, now with touchscreen I lost that ability, I have to check every word, some keyboards help with that correcting my words if I moved my fingers a little to the side, but it's not the same, with physical buttons I was sure I pressed the correct buttons. Physical buttons give touch feedback and that's important when you're focused on something important in your screen. I don't want to switch my focus from my screen to my keyboard every time I need to use a function key.