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Posted by Joel Shepherd on 04/22/06 19:39
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<doraymeRidThis-F0FA77.13530022042006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> Talking keyboards... select, copy, paste: I have been irritated
> using a PC by the great distance between the Control key and c
> and even further, v. On the Mac, the command key is closer to
> both much used letter keys. I bet that if it had been known from
> the beginning how crucial and popular these commands were to
> become, there would have been an easier combination, fingerwise.
Finally, an off-topic post to reply to. It's been a while.
Maybe my Mac technique is wrong, or maybe the little keyboard on my
powermac laptop distorts things, but I find the Mac's copy/paste command
key combinations harder to do than the PC's. It's not the distance: it's
the hand distortion.
On the Mac, I have to tuck my thumb under my hand to hold the command
key and then fish around for the other key with my index finger (on the
same hand). It's uncomfortable, and the fact that the keys are close
makes it even more so.
On a PC, I hold the ctrl key down with my pinkie -- where it's hanging
out anyway -- and bap at keys with the same hand's index finger. No tuck
and stretch, just hold and tap.
But, I have fairly big hands and long fingers. Maybe smaller hands find
the Mac layout more comfortable.
[Nod to being on-topic: If this response was marked up in HTML, I'd be
using lots of P elements. So there.]
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Joel.
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