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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 22:43:59 JST minute

   preparing MNT Reform Keyboard, typewriter edition with traditional stagger. there are still two unclaimed keycaps for QWERTY-US. probably one is compose/menu. spacebar is split in 3 and could be customized.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:07:53 JST minute

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     • ploum

     @ploum typewriter style stagger!

   • ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 03:07:54 JST ploum

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     @mntmn : why "typewriter edition"? (typewriter user and collector here)

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 17:29:00 JST minute

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     • Paul

     @paul hyper is basically "fn", it gives you a second layer with media keys, page up/down, home/end etc. very useful in practice.

   • Paul (paul@mstdn.dk)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 17:29:02 JST Paul

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     @mntmn Now that you sort of caved in and designed a "normal" keyboard, why not go the whole way and cut the HYPER key (it's not necessary/not standard/was never missed in the last 40 years by anyone), replace it with a caps lock (I'd miss it whenever I #define MY_MACROS) and put a second CTRL on the right side, to make life in emacs a little easier. There's probably gone a lot of thought in all these design decisions so I'm not hoping for any of these suggestions to be heard.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 17:29:54 JST minute

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     • Paul

     @paul also i don't appreciate the expression "caved in".