There’s that old legend about the Symbolics Lisp Machine keyboards which had, like, a bazillion modifiers (and were a big influence on Emacs). Someone suggested that they would eventually run out space to put in more shift keys, so they’d have to introduce pedals. I suppose organ stops would also work.
Control your Emacs with an accordion — or any MIDI instrument!
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You can e.g. plug in a MIDI pedalboard (like one in a church organ) for modifier keys (ctrl, alt, shift); or you can define chords to trigger complex commands or macros.
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The idea for the whole thing came from [dead link]. I immediately became totally convinced that a full-size chromatic button accordion with its 120 bass keys and around 64 treble keys would be the epitome of an input device for Emacs.
Music keyboards do have that sweet n-key rollover. So, there’s probably some Emacs users playing their editor like a piano.
There’s that old legend about the Symbolics Lisp Machine keyboards which had, like, a bazillion modifiers (and were a big influence on Emacs). Someone suggested that they would eventually run out space to put in more shift keys, so they’d have to introduce pedals. I suppose organ stops would also work.
Do Emacs have midi input?
Well, apparently you can extend Emacs to have it:
https://github.com/jnykopp/emaccordion