From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T17:34:33+09:00
Subject: [OT] Keyboard nightmare (was Re: Can't type {, }, [ or ] in irb)

Matthias Luedtke wrote:
> rohde wrote:
> My current 'workaround' is to simply switch to an english keyboard 
> layout every time I use irb by pressing Shift-Alt. This seems odd, but 
> actually an english keyboard is better suited to program Ruby anyway 
> just because you get one-hit-access to {, [ and so on.
Oh yeah, the placement of {} and /,\,[] on any keyboard other than the 
standard US english is a carpal syndrome nightmare.
When I switched from the english to the german keyboard I found it 
immensely annoying (ever since I have worked on croatian, spanish and 
worst of all swiss layouts).
I wonder, did the original idea for using [] in C was because it was 
accessible on the english keyboard, and if it was made in germany would 
we now write a< ....damn, there is no convenient combination anyway. I 
guess central europeans should only invent natural languages :)
Cheers,
V.-

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