Since putting together my ErgoMax a month back, I found myself feeling increasingly less keen to get back to productive stuff, which in my case is programming.

Yesterday I had a moment of clarity on the irritation that I couldn’t previously quite put my finger on — it was the steady hassle of having to fiddle with layer shifting and other mod keys such as shift or command, to type in even just a few lines of code.

How do all the programmers deal with having to constantly key in “, [] and {}, sometimes with cmd, ctrl etc keys held down, on boards without dedicated keys for them?

  • pca006132@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would say that you need to try and modify your keymap. Mod-tap is useful for commonly used symbols.

    Also, I would recommend you to try vim (or vim mode for some editors), as you can use modes instead of modifier keys.