[bombcar]

A subset of the keyboard hackers aim to imitate the happy hacker keyboard, which was sized to fit inside a 19 in rack slide out.

This is one of them. Function keys are reached vi a modifier.

There are others: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/classic-style-f122-m...

F24 for life!

[fanf2]

Yeah, see also the recent discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37004633 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003963

One annoying thing about macOS is that it has a very limited collection of key codes. I tried using F24 for window placement but it was ignored, so I had to back off to F16.

[bombcar]

I seem to recall being able to use an add on utility to get access to the higher scancodes - mainly to prevent some from being “the same key”.

[layer8]

They must not be using Excel (and certain IDEs).

[stoolpigeon]

thank you - I appreciate it.