help to complete emergency keyboard remapping
Little Girl
littlergirl at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 18:56:52 UTC 2025
Hey there,
Marco Fioretti wrote:
>after years of intensive typing, the Down arrow key on my keyboard
>just broke (mechanically, I mean), I NEED it badly to quickly scroll
>up and down big text files because I have a deadline tomorrow and
>for several reasons cannot get any other keyboard before Wednesday
>morning
I thought I'd add that I have expensive taste in keyboards because
I'm really hard on them (brutal would probably be a more accurate
word), so I can't keep backups of them around. Instead, I buy the
cheapest keyboard I can find (a search just now turned one up for
less than $12 on a well-known shopping site we all use) and stash it
in a closet for an emergency like the one you're having. It's no fun
to use, but it will work and will get you through until you replace it
with one you like.
I also tend to stash old, mostly-good keyboards if what broke on them
is something that isn't used often, like one of the numpad keys. A
keyboard like that will do in a pinch until I can get a new one.
--
Little Girl
There is no spoon.
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