{"id":12531,"date":"2024-10-22T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2024-10-22T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:54:21","slug":"what-keyboard-are-you-using-with-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12531","title":{"rendered":"What Keyboard Are You Using With Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA month ago I opined that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_true_Scotsman\">no true <del>Scotsman<\/del><\/a> Emacser would <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12454\">view anything but the Space Cadet Keyboard as the apotheosis of keyboards  for Emacs users<\/a>. I was promptly schooled that, to the contrary, most Emacs users today have no desire for a Space Cadet Keyboard. I remain firm in my desire for one but I bow to the prevailing view.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut if the Space Cadet Keyboard is not the pinnacle, what is? The TL;DR is that no one knows. Everyone, it seems, has their own idea of the ideal Emacs keyboard. Over at the Emacs subreddit, yibie asks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/1g3fk11\/2025_is_coming_soon_emacs_users_what_keyboard_are\/\">what keyboards will people be using for Emacs in 2025<\/a>. The striking thing is that there are almost as many answers as there are comments. Everyone appears to have their own preferred keyboard that they swear by.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI remained convinced that the most important thing in choosing an Emacs keyboard is mappings for <kbd>Hyper<\/kbd> and <kbd>Super<\/kbd>. Every modern keyboard has <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd> and <kbd>Meta<\/kbd> (as <kbd>Alt<\/kbd>) covered but there is no standard way of mapping <kbd>Meta<\/kbd> and <kbd>Super<\/kbd>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn any event, if you have your own views, feel free to jump in and share what you&rsquo;re using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago I opined that no true Scotsman Emacser would view anything but the Space Cadet Keyboard as the apotheosis of keyboards for Emacs users. I was promptly schooled that, to the contrary, most Emacs users today have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-12531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12532,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions\/12532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}