Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On Wed, 21 May 2025 01:30:55 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

The keyboards that came that came with the Lisp machines had cap,
ctrl, meta, hyper, and maybe one other such key ...

There was an online discussion of the old Lisp Machine keyboards that
included pictures. I think it’s gone now.

My recreation of what I thought was the ultimate, the “Space Cadet”
keyboard, as an exercise in CG modelling:
<https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/Space-Cadet-Keyboard-650629356>

(My original version followed a reference picture where the keyboard
had become yellow with age, and the grey keys had turned brown; the
above picture shows it in something closer to the original colours
when new.)

The mouse "knew" the types you were pointing at and the menus adjust
to sensible options for the type of data of the object represented
by what the mouse was on.

We don’t describe it in such magical terms nowadays; we just call them
“contextual menus”.