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by gc9 1180 days ago
Maybe you mean an 85-key "75% keyboard". It's a popular request on the frame.work community discussion of "The keyboard".

On keyboard layouts like Framework's, I still have trouble trying to touch-type the right control key with my ring finger-nail. I prefer a "75% keyboard" with an navigation/editing column which provides room for the right ctrl key further right. (And full size arrow keys. And makes shift-End easy for selecting rest of line.)

Maybe we can hope a Kickstarter keyboard maker will make a Framework version in a few years. Main limitation is the thinness, only 3.7mm.
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komali2 1180 days ago
If they're using qmkesque firmware you could start programming some interesting new layers to give you functionality like this. I used to require a full sized keyboard so I'd have all this functionality like home and end keys and stuff, and then I started using keyboards with qmk and similar, and now I have all sorts of layers and macros and etc and I seriously can never go back.
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JohnAZoidberg 1176 days ago
The firmware is QMK: https://github.com/frameworkcomputer/qmk_firmware Will be upstreamed before launch.
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komali2 1176 days ago
You say "will" rather than hedging that you'll issue PRs and see if they get upstreamed. Have you all been in conversations with Jack Humbert and co?
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tracker1 1180 days ago
I tend to favor left control, and right shift myself... discovered this using a KB where the up arrow was at the edge of the right shift, most annoying keyboard to type on ever... all of the sudden my typing is in the middle of already typed text. If typing while looking at something else, I'd see a garbled mess too often.
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gc9 1179 days ago
Do you have very large hands or a narrow keyboard? On a normal 85-key "75% keyboard", I cannot reach the up-arrow key with my pinky while the rest of my fingers are on the home keys.

I've had similar cursor problems with those keyboards that have page-up and page-dn next to the up-arrow key. Just a little finger displacement when trying to left-arrow and the cursor is suddenly inserting my subsequent typed text far from the intended location.

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tracker1 1179 days ago
The keyboard I'm referring to was small, like htpc use. My desktop uses a full keyboard and I've brought one with me for laptop use before.

And my hands are a little big. Not crazy big though.

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