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It seems apparent that no matter what we do, there is
going to be some corner of computerdom that does not
want to deal with the spacebar as a legitimate character,
leaving us with the lowly underscore to fulfill its linguistic
clarification duties as a stand-in.
In lieu of the proper but
impossible action, (completely
redesigning the travesty that is the QWERTY layout), I
propose that keyboard manufacturers start to map the
underscore as a shift character to the spacebar.
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Quite easy to remap a UTF codepage to do
this. |
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Highly Bakeable and surprisingly useful. |
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But how will I enter a capital space? |
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Through the front door, after being cleared by security, is the usual method. Other options not approved. |
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Just make sure you take the capslock off after using it for a capital
space. I'm so sick of seeing grammatically incorrect use of the
capital space. The silent shouting of spaces gets annoying after a
while. |
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Am I the only one who thinks capital space should map to an em space while lower case space maps to an en? |
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Otherwise, I like the idea. |
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omg keyboard-controlled kerning? brilliant
extension! |
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Just don't try to enter your capital's airspace. They get
highly annoyed when you do that. |
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I don't want to ruin your perfect bun record, but this would
totally screw up anyone who wants to select an entire row
in Excel, where shift-space is the shortcut to do so. |
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Oh. Right!! and here's your positive. I was hoping for a shift
in the time/space continuum... but punctuation is
important as well. |
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Or they could just eliminate the underscore all together. I
use it, even here in my nom de bake, and also in my email.
It's a pretty good gatekeeper. If people can't figure out the
underscore, do I really want to be communicating with
them??? (I don't think so.) |
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//while lower case space maps to an en?..// |
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Did you know that Google will be offering space maps next
year?? |
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