Dude just switch to vim already
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Xenny@lemmy.world 2 years agoYeah but try pressing more than 4 keys at once on the PS2 keyboard and get back to me
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
dashydash@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Dude, just switch to Webstorm already
lud@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Is CS available in vim yet?
embed_me@programming.dev 2 years ago
Idk but Doom runs pretty well
dan@upvote.au 2 years ago
I think you’re confusing USB and PS/2. USB has (or used to have?) a limit on the number of keys you could press, whereas PS/2 supports n-key rollover.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 years ago
USB supports NKRO as well as the default 6KRO.
dan@upvote.au 2 years ago
Historically it didn’t support it though, whereas PS/2 always did.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 years ago
Historically computers only supported punch cards, it feels weird to only focus on past capabilities. www.devever.net/~hl/usbnkro
drathvedro@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Nothing to do with the interface. If your keyboard can only do 4 it means that the manufacturer has cheaped out on diodes and couldn’t even be bothered to stagger the matrix enough to make you not notice.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Preposterous, I’ve used emacs on a ps2 keyboard without issues.
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I recall NKRO was the selling point on some of those keyboards, my old steel series mechanical will absolutely let you mash all the keys with a ps2 adapter.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Ok, but why would you ever?
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Video games
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Never had issues with it, but fair. Different strokes.
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Try playing a rhythm game on a PS2 keyboard 😟
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
That is a limitation of the keyboard not the PS/2. Unlike USB which is limited to 10 simultaneous key presses, PS/2 supports full n-key rollover.
frezik@midwest.social 2 years ago
USB is not limited to 10, or 6 as is sometimes stated.
www.devever.net/~hl/usbnkro
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Interesting I did not know that.
blarth@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
This, it’s why I still use the PS2 interface. Full n-key rollover is impossible for me to do without.
frezik@midwest.social 2 years ago
USB does not have that limitation.
blarth@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
Ah, had to dig into it. There was a long period of time during which you couldn’t find a USB NKRO keyboard. Seems that has been fixed.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Out of curiosity, what is the practical use of full N-key rollover? I can’t think of many things that require me to press more than maybe five keys at a time.
dashydash@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Used to have these problems when we were children and playing fighting games with my brother with one keyboard or guitar hero clones that need you to press multiple buttons at the same time, that’s the only use case I could think of. I don’t know if there’s any modern software that requires you to mash more than 2 or 3 buttons at the same time
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Bit of a niche use-case, but I’d like to have it for using my laptop keyboard as a piano keyboard, for basically MIDI input (via VMPK or one of the DAWs with this feature built-in).
There’s even certain combinations of just 4 keys, which I simply cannot play…
blarth@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
If you type really fast, you’ll find it.
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well I never had a fancy gaming keyboard back in the PS2 days lol
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
How about a fancy IBM keyboard? The Model F from 1981 features n-key rollover. Don’t ask me why they needed it at the time though. It probably wasn’t important as the Model M from a couple of years later dropped that feature.