help to complete emergency keyboard remapping

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 8/17/25 2:56 PM, Little Girl wrote:
> 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.

I recently finally dumped all the PS/2 keyboards in my stash....

:)

Now at least I can just grab a usb keyboard.