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Subject: Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor
Date: 21 May 2025 22:05:06 GMT
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On Wed, 21 May 2025 01:30:55 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

> The keyboards that came that came with the Lisp machines had cap, ctrl,
> meta, hyper, and maybe one other such key; the mouse had three buttons
> and you could chord with both hands. The mouse "knew" the types you were
> pointing at and the menus adjust to sensible options for the type of
> data of the object represented by what the mouse was on. After
> overcoming disbelief that all this was working reasonably quickly and
> properly, it was a real joy. And, by the way, the keys I mentioned above
> were so arranged that it was not hard to reach virtually any chord.

Chuck Moore of FORTH fame devised a one handed keyboard that you played 
like an ocarina. Luckily that never caught on.