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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: 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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