@benjaminhollon
I support this. :)
I went from 80-90 wpm to like 4-8wpm when I first changed. I'm sitting at a comfy 60-90 wpm. Occasionally my dyslexia switches my ring fingers. Or I'll have the correct column just the wrong row. I'm so used to Ortholinear now. Staggered just feels so weird and cramped.
I have been wnting to switch to #colemak for a while, but then I would have to redo all the vim bindings as well as all of my probably 1000s, of keybindings throughout all of my programs.
@zbecker@benjaminhollon It took me a while, but I decided to just use the same vim mappings under colemak. It forced drastic changes to my muscle memory - which was helpful overall to learning the new layout.
I took a big productivity dip during the transition, but I'm glad I switched to it during the slow Dec/Jan work weeks.
@rfmejia@zbecker
I just remapped nei to make the hjkl positions still work, then remapped the actions that were under those keys. It took some doing, and isn't a perfect solution, but mostly works great.
@phuhl@zbecker
That's definitely a valid viewpoint. That's what kept me from switching for a long time. I finally was won over, though. I very infrequntly use someone else's computer, and I can often use my own QMK keyboard with it anyway to keep my keymap, so I'm not particularly worried.
@zbecker@benjaminhollon I have considered having two different layouts for normal/insert modes. I dan't know if it's doable, but it's an option if you want to keep your muscle memory
@zbecker@benjaminhollon I've been using Programmer Dvorak for twelve years, and decided to not change any keybindings. Other than hjkl movement, bindings are mnemonic, not positional. "Change in block" would go from cib to ign... It's better to keep the mnemonic bindings and relearn the position on the keyboard.
@benjaminhollon@zbecker I even kept those, otherwise I would loose dhtn! So I use jpcv ;) While I still use these all the time, I use plenty of other means of navigations too, so it's not too bad. Still worth it to avoid RSI, but it took time before the muscle memory was rewritten.
@sotolf
Yeah, it's less of a big deal for me, I think. I'm perfectly fine with middle columns. Pinky overuse is my bigger deal. It seems to be especially the case on my right pinky with colemak, but that may just be because I'm hitting backspace more ofteh than I'm used to.
@sotolf
No, I use Caps for Escape. On hold it triggers a layer with a bunch of other stuff, so I can do caps+s (on colemak; it was caps+d on qwerty) do backspace as well.
@sotolf
It's just such a stretch to that top left corner, though. And on my 60% board, I don't have that key there. Most people on 60% boards have it instead of the `/~ key, then have that key under some sort of layer/modifier, but I actually use that key a ton in my programming, so I prefer to have it dedicated.
@sotolf
Oh, absolutely. I'd love a thumb cluster. I'm seriously considering getting a Keeb.io Iris once I'm back in the US. I think a split keyboard could be really great for me.
I'd still have to use my laptop keyboard in class to take notes, though, so I'd have to get used to two different keymappings, one for laptop and one for when back home with my keyboard. I think I can figure it out, but it's non-ideal.
@sotolf
I've aggressively remapped all my modifiers.
meta/cmd/super/whatever-you-call-it - left of space. Tapping is "home". I also have it replacing the [{ key for easier access, though I'm not dead-set on that yet.
alt/option - right of space. Tapping is "end".
control - holding "return". Or using the keys one slot further out from meta and alt, if that's easier (usually it's not).
@sotolf
Eh, it's not too bad. I can adjust if I need to. Or I can just plug in my QMK board and have all my remappings follow me, OS-agnostic, with no setup required since it's all firmare-level mapping.
@sotolf
Yeah, I'm not usually carrying it, but if I knew I'd be doing work on another computer ahead of time I'd probably throw it in my bag and bring it along.
@sotolf
And I get not wanting to give up altgr. I don't type in languages that need it much, and when I do need an accent for French or something, I just use my Compose key, but if English weren't my first language or I needed to do more extensive typing in another language I'd probably want it too.
@sotolf
I get it, then. I might go for one of those low-profile boards (QMK still, ideally) to try and be able to always keep it in my bag, but I might decide it's not worth the effort.
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