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the "\" button

Post by Rashidi »

i must vent this out.

recently my old keyboard died, the "Q", "A", "Z", "1", "~", Tab & Esc keys no-longer works, so i buy a new keyboard.
but.., the location of the "\" button on the new keyboard were diferent
its now located after the "," button; previously was after "=" button.

rant: i needs several minutes to re-adjust my typing reflects!
(ack, i forgot the check before buy, oh well...)

now i feel relieved that i have vent it out.
any opinion where most likely better/favorite location for the "\" button?
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Post by Agozer »

On a Finnish keyboard, the "\" can be found as an Alt Gr function on the same key as "+" and "?". I'm quite comfortable with that.

To me, it's funny how ZSNES treats my tilde key as "\". Yes, yes, it's all in the scancodes.
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Post by grinvader »

On a french keyb, antislash is alt-gr + '_', which is the '8' key for qwerty folks. 8 is shift + '_' for us, but less troubling thanks to numpad alternative.

And yes, it sucks a lot to type MS paths here.
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Post by creaothceann »

German keyboard. { [ ] } \ are especially nice...
EDIT: "nice" as in "awkward".

@byuu: Years ago (when bsnes had no customizable keys) I'd sent you a pic of a keyboard that I thought was german, but it turned out it wasn't. :/
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Post by Gil_Hamilton »

creaothceann wrote:German keyboard. { [ ] } \ are especially nice...
That woulda been nice when I was programming. Fucking shifted curly braces...
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Post by Joe Camacho »

I wish my laptop keyboard had a spanish layout, most of the time I use accents and other symbols by hand memory, I don't really know where they are.
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Post by Francis64 »

grinvader wrote:On a french keyb, antislash is alt-gr + '_', which is the '8' key for qwerty folks. 8 is shift + '_' for us, but less troubling thanks to numpad alternative.

And yes, it sucks a lot to type MS paths here.
Yep, Azerty keyboards are not ideal when writing programmes: curly {} square [] and angled <> brackets are not easy to access.
So much easier on a UK keyboard.
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Post by I.S.T. »

Francis64 wrote:
grinvader wrote:On a french keyb, antislash is alt-gr + '_', which is the '8' key for qwerty folks. 8 is shift + '_' for us, but less troubling thanks to numpad alternative.

And yes, it sucks a lot to type MS paths here.
Yep, Azerty keyboards are not ideal when writing programmes: curly {} square [] and angled <> brackets are not easy to access.
So much easier on a UK keyboard.
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Bloody 'ell!
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Those Brits get everywhere.
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Gil_Hamilton wrote:Bloody 'ell!
Great, now I feel like installing Giants again to watch the cutscenes.
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Post by grinvader »

Francis64 wrote:and angled <> brackets are not easy to access.
So much easier on a UK keyboard.
Nah, <> are ultra easy to reach. Just left of W.

Pic of the main part.
The rightmost part is identical to qwerty.
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Joe Camacho wrote:I wish my laptop keyboard had a spanish layout, most of the time I use accents and other symbols by hand memory, I don't really know where they are.
I really suck at Mexico's layout, maybe becuase I got so god damn used to Latin American's.

Also I mastered Alt+92 for backlashing your asses. \ (_*_)
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MisterJones wrote:Also I mastered Alt+92 for backlashing your asses. \ (_*_)
I still prefer alt gr + '_', compared to the ctrl+shift+"u5c" needed for me to use my direct unicode input.
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LEARN TO BUY STUFF RIGHT
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neoblaze wrote:LEARN TO BUY STUFF RIGHT
dang you're right, the prolink keyboard i bought 2 years ago got a bunch dead keys today.
just recenly happened, following keys died: 1,2,3,4, 7,8,9,0, F5, F10
the rest keys still functioning.

i gonna buy new keyboard again, tomorrow.
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Re: the "\" button

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Why the fuck was this bumped?
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Re: the "\" button

Post by adventure_of_link »

Gil_Hamilton wrote:Why the fuck was this bumped?
Personally, I let this go at first since the OP gave us an update as to what's up..
<Nach> so why don't the two of you get your own room and leave us alone with this stupidity of yours?
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