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...at least with its current behavior. Having hud on ctrl would make sense
I think if:
1. It activated on a timeout ater pressing and holding ctrl.
2. One could type the desired command while holdgin ctrl (This would need
incorporating current common keyboard shortcuts like ctrl+c )
3. HUD would execute the command on the release of ctrl.

But this would need a larger re-design and by no means would it make to
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2012/4/14 balint777@xxxxxxxxx <balint777@xxxxxxxxx>

> I have changed my HUD trigger to ctrl just to try how it would act. I can
> say after an hour of heavy text-editing HUD activated about 50 times from
> which about 2 was intentional. I think it pretty much gets in the way
> rather than help with ctrl.
>
> 2012/4/14 Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
>> joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Den 14. april 2012 20:25, skrev Josh Strawbridge:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> i use my little/small/pinkie finger to hit ctrl.  i find it much more
>>>> comfortable than hitting alt with my thumb. i've never found alt to be a
>>>> comfortable reach.
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I tried to understand how that's possible, but it's a little bit
>>> difficult. When I have my hands in the resting position, my left thumb is
>>> about one inch from the left alt-key. I would've preferred it to be a
>>> little to the right, at the cost of a slightly smaller space bar, but it's
>>> still easily accessible to me. At the very least, it's much more
>>> comfortable than the Ctrl-key, which requires me to lift my arm or twist my
>>> hand.
>>>
>>> Do you have a weird keyboard, or do you have weird hands? :)
>>>
>>
>> Whatever he has, I have it too :)
>>
>> With my hands in resting position, Alt is just to the left of where my
>> thumb naturally rests on the spacebar. Super (AKA 'Windows') is just to the
>> left of that, and Ctrl is just to the left of that. Ctrl, Super and Alt are
>> all approximately the same size. With my hands in resting position, my left
>> pinkie rests on the 'A' key. If I move it down a fraction of an inch, it's
>> on left-shift, and if I move it down another fraction of an inch it's on
>> the left Ctrl key. Both are comfortable movements. This is on a 'pure'
>> american-english keyboard - does yours have some extra keys for Norwegian
>> that change the layout?
>>
>> Evan
>>
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