Alternate keyboard layouts
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@OffByOne said:
or the mouse, which X windows makes easy with its select-is-copy and middle-click-is-paste functionality
Filed under: Useful stuff that I keep forgetting even exists -.-
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I learned it at a time that I was having wrist problems.
[...]It's much more comfortable than what I was doing before, but how much is due to Dvorak and how much is due to touch typing is an open question. Subjectively it seems like a fair bit is due to Dvorak (based on the occasional stint on QWERTY trying to act more touch-typing), but who knows.
That was the reason I switched to dvorak too. I've been touch-typing since I was 10 and made the switch to dvorak when I was 25.
My wrist- and fingerpain went away in little less than a month after being able to type full-speed on dvorak.
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I will sometimes use select+drag when moving code around for shorts distances. It's nice because it doesn't touch the clipboard.
Sublime doesn't get this right and it annoys me.
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Worst feeling ever: Booting up a new VM, logging in for the first time, going to type a simple command, and HAVING THE WRONG SYMBOLS COME OUT.
"crap, ok, what keyboard layout has - where / is on my keyboard, and where does that put / so I can get to /etc/sysconfig to edit the keyboard file...."
apparently this was set to Italian.
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Yes, I assumed you would to that with two hands on keyboard. I was thinking specifically of single hand use so you can keep the other hand on the mouse.
I don't even want to think about what happens to HJKL for Vim cursor movement on a non QWERTY keyboard... :/
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I keep trying to switch to Dvorak, but it slows me down so much because I'm not used to it that I always end with "Screw this, I have stuff that needs to be done so I'm going back to QWERTY."
It's anticipation of precisely this kind of thing which has kept me from even trying out a non-QWERTY layout...
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Worst feeling ever: Booting up a new VM, logging in for the first time, going to type a simple command, and HAVING THE WRONG SYMBOLS COME OUT.
That at least makes sense. How about using RDP to connect to a remote machine just for it to emulate the remote machine's keyboard layout. Who the hell thought this was an intelligent idea?
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