Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Except that \ is hard to type on most keyboards: C and \ are the two 
> > most distant keys on the most widespread keyboard layout (QWERTY), and 
> > on other keyboards \ requires pressing Shift or AltGr.
>
> I don't quite get how you reach that conclusion about the qwerty 
> keyboard.
>
> On my ISO102 qwerty keyboard, \ is diagonally adjacent to left control 
> (regardless of whether it's at its original position or on capslock), 
> and there is another \ left of RET, so two keys above, one left of right 
> control.
>
> With an ANSI keyboard, it's only available on one key, which is 3 keys 
> above right control.

This is diverging more and more from the proposal, but: on smaller 
keyboards (laptops) there is typically only one control key (on the bottom 
left) and only \ key (near the right top).