On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 03:42, Stefan Kangas <ste...@marxist.se> wrote:
> Yup, so I added "(the space bar)". By the way, must you call it *the* space *bar*? You’re probably assuming the currently dominant keyboard design where there is a single space key that is somewhere between 5 and 8 units long, but this is not the only possible and not the most efficient design, which gives both thumbs a single function — to separate words. Many keyboard enthusiasts today build keyboards that utilize thumbs more efficiently, placing 3 to 8 keys in an arc or a cluster under each thumb. An Emacs user especially benefits from such a layout because all modifiers can be made so much more accessible. For these designs, space keys are normal-sized (1, 1.25, sometimes 1.5u), and there might be two of them so it might not be technically correct to talk about “the” space key. I therefore propose “(space key)”.
