An important thing for programmer
As babie described on his japanese blog, there are many important things for programmers.
Yes, I also think it is imoprtant that editors, fonts, keyboard, display, and more...
But there is one more notable thing, especialy for me.
That is keyboard repeate rate settings.
Even fastest settings in OS normal setting panel, I feed very slow, slow, slow...
Linux is nice for this, it's possible to set very fast repeat rate by default.
My linux repeat rate settings is:
xset r rate 250 80
It's very comfortable for me.
Windows sucks by default. But by using kbdacc, you can set fast keyboard repeat rate.
Here is my settings:
OK. Linux and Windows is good.
But OSX more sucks than windows. As far as I know, it's impossible to set faster repeat rate.
Does anyone know about this?
Comments
I'm just curious: in wihch situation do you need to repeat the key so fast?
Mostly for navigation in terminal window, moving cursor or scrolling on my shell, editor, and pager.
I thought same thing before and even thought it's not important.
But once experience that, I started to feel slow and uncomfortable without this.
I see ... like Ctrl-P, N, F, B in emacs? I'll install the kbdacc and see what happens.
Yes. I hope you liked it.