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Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the Knowledge...so-much...so-fast.-It's-glorious! dept.

"gewg_" writes:

El Reg reports on upcoming keyboard ideas from Toshiba:

Toshiba USA has revealed that it will add a key dedicated to summoning Cortana, Windows 10's digital assistant.

Toshiba's Jeff Barney, the company's veep and GM for all things PC in North America, says the new button will appear on every keyboard the company sells.

PCWorld reports that "the key will sit in the upper left area, near the function keys".

A quick glance at the many keyboards in Vulture Souths eyrie suggests that this means the ESC key is in peril.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:16AM (#197660)

    Cortana can go fuck itself. You will pry vi off my cold dead fingers.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:36AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:36AM (#197666) Homepage Journal

    Emacs
    Makes
    A
    Computer
    Slow

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:42AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:42AM (#197684) Homepage Journal

      "We use vi son. They use emacs."

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      Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:56AM (#197697)

      We have always been at war with EMACS.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:31PM (#197851)

      Emacs
      Makes
      A
      Computer
      Slow

      But it's still better than an OS like Windows....

      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:49PM

        by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:49PM (#197882) Homepage Journal

        Emacs *is* and OS. It's ideal for old-fashioned text-only computer screens.

        I still use one of its apps -- the text editor.

        -- hendrik

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:50PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:50PM (#197975)

          um, woosh.

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by coolgopher on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:42AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:42AM (#197671)
    Workaround:

    "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <clickety click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <click-click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <clickety-clack-click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode." <tappety-click> "Hey Cortana, vim command mode..."

    First the rumours about Apple doing away with the Escape key, now Toshiba... sheesh! Escape shall be the key, and the key shall be escape! Thank $deity for keyboard remapping (until it becomes a hardware-only key *sigh*).

    Also, don't get me wrong, I'm actually quite fond of Cortana on my phone - "she" has managed to land just on the right side of the fence between annoying and useless.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by CoolHand on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:42PM

      by CoolHand (438) on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:42PM (#197798) Journal
      For those of us really cool with vim (or neovim), we already map [wikia.com] jj or jk to put us in command mode, so I won't even notice ESC missing..
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      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:51PM

        by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:51PM (#197884) Homepage Journal

        How do you type hajj?

        • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:54PM

          by CoolHand (438) on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:54PM (#197907) Journal
          if you delay a certain amount of time after the first "j" it will quit waiting for the second to go to command mode and you can type the second "j". I personally switched to "jk" as a sequence after trying out "jj" for a while, as it seems even less used. Both are good though. Never leaving the home row is sweet.. it's especially sweet if you use vi command mode on your shell prompt..
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          Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams

        • (Score: 2) by jcross on Thursday June 18 2015, @06:04PM

          by jcross (4009) on Thursday June 18 2015, @06:04PM (#197911)

          Why would you want to type that word? The NSA is watching!