Will I get used to the placement of Cntl key?

OK, Chaz says that I will get used to the placement of the Cntl key on a Compal HEL80 (or many other brands, such as Thinkpads). On these notebooks, the Fn key is in the lower left corner, where God intended the Cntl key to be (actually, God really intended the Cntl key to be where the Caps Lock key is). The unfortunate Cntl key is relegated to the second key in the bottom row, in between the Fn key and the Windows key.

So, the question is: can a touch-typing vim user get used to this smaller, harder-to-type Cntl key, or will I be forever cursing the $2K down the drain spent on a mis-configured notebook? Please take into account that I will not be using only this notebook -- I use a standard desktop keyboard at my day job (and the Cntl key is in the lower left corner on a desktop keyboard).

-- John

 

You'll get used to it, dont worry. Its just a minor adjustment to your typing skill.

 

Perhaps. It's maddening to see so few keyboards with the control key in one of the two standard places you mentioned. I sometimes think breaking my pinky finger so it naturally lands one key over might help...

 

Yep well I think it is not that hard to get used to! However I did try to remap it and well that didn't go so well. XEV would not capture a key pressed when only touching the FN key so I couldn't remap it to Control and remap control to FN....

Otto.

 

Yeah. I've gotten used to using vim on my Thinkpad here, so it'll happen You just have to have faith... heh

 

You will get used to any situation, just give it time: I had a laptop on which the Ctrl and Fn were misplaced, and I got used to that, and then recently I've got a laptop on which Ctrl and Fn were correctly placed and now I have to get used to the new situation

 

Don't even try, put control where it should be in the first place... where caps lock is. This is very easy with an xkb rule in xorg.conf, I'm not sure yet about the console.