@gruber First iPad keyboard with a dedicated Siri button, among other things. And the arrow keys appear to have a raised up-arrow to help you orient your fingers without looking?
@gruber Is it possible to remap an iPad keyboard so one of the buttons is Copy or Paste? Tangential but is there an iOS virtual keyboard that has a paste button?
@gruber If Apple was really courageous, they would have just made caps lock into ESC ages ago. It’s like the iMac going full USB. Just pull the band aid off for everyone’s benefit.
@agiletortoise@gruber I’ve remapped the key to the left of the A to Control whenever possible for as long as I can remember because that’s what computers had when I started and I use Control more than any of the other modifier keys. This is the hill I will die on.
@agiletortoise I can see the argument for repurposing Caps Lock's prime real estate for a more-useful key, but I also sort of think the train left the station on that one about 20 years ago. People expect Caps Lock?
@gruber@agiletortoise I’m glad there’s a setting for that. I’ve been living with esc as caps lock since the Touch Bar’s introduction. Big fan! I’m not sure we need Apple to actually print the label on the key?
@marcedwards@gruber I suppose the fact that there are UI accommodations for people accidentally having caps lock on is an argument against making ESC more easy to accidentally hit.
@gruber@agiletortoise They don’t expect Caps Lock if they’re old enough. :-) I use ESC all the time (vi user) but type it as Ctrl-[ so I can touch type it. Kinda don’t care about the actual ESC key.
@gruber@agiletortoise I would love to get rid of it. But working in a school every day I am shocked that the vast majority of users don’t use the shift keys and toggle caps lock on and off again for individual capitals. I’d say anecdotally 75% type that way!
@gruber@agiletortoise I know it's not exactly Fitt's Law, but if you really need the escape key, and fast, the extreme edge of two axes of the keyboard is a handy place.
@gruber Would love to hear your take on Ternus's statement that with the new Magic Keyboard, "The entire experience feels just like using a MacBook". I may be reading too much into it, but that sort of sounds like some major changes may be coming on the iPadOS side at WWDC?
I just can't remember hearing them explicitly referring to an iPad + keyboard combo as "just like using a Mac" in any prior years.
@markv@gruber to me that just sounds like the upgraded quality of aluminum and glass make it feel similar to the MacBook hardware. I don’t think it’s talking about software at all.
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