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- From: swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
- Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.175206.26905@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <1992Dec10.163944.15870@physics.ucla.edu> <Bz2GC7.Cpz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:52:06 GMT
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- In article <Bz2GC7.Cpz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
- >
- >Lastly, and this is picking the smallest nit ever, how easy is using
- >TeX on a 2nd generation NeXT keyboard (the one with all the
- >commonly-used UNIX characters in the wrong place)? For example, I've
- >noticed heavy use of the "\" character in TeX source code, however, on
- >my keyboard, that's a real stretch; something I would hate to have to
- >use often. I would love to get the new ADB keyboard setup from NeXT,
- >it would solve many problems with the keyboard layout that often
- >surface, but it's not available for me.
-
- Nah...\ is control-/ on my keyboard. As ~ is control-. and
- | is control-; and ` is control-' :)
- Thank god for /NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard!
- You know what sucks about the ADB keyboard, though? Take
- a look how far away Alternate is from the arrow keys. That takes
- functionality away from Stuart...(Scott, get them to fix that) :)
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- Alex
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