On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an > > obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck > > on a QWERTY keyboard, but you have to know the chords to do anything on a > > chording keyboard. > > i dont have a clue what a chording keybd is; will google > after a long nap1 also, i have lost track of who posted the > 'fentek' page, but that is where i got my present mine.
A chording keyboard is a keyboard or other button-press interface with fewer keys so it can fit on a smaller device, where many keycodes are gotten by way of combining presses of multiple keys rather than a single key as on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Thus, for instance, where on a QWERTY keyboard you get a capital A by holding the Shift key and pressing the A key, you might on a chording keyboard also get a lower-case A by holding down some key and pressing another key. This works for keyboards with fewer keys because there are many potential combinations of keys that could be used; if all keycodes are achieved by a two-button "chord", all the keys on a standard 101-key keyboard, plus all Alt-, Shift-, and Ctrl-chord keycodes, could be simulated by a mere twenty keys. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
