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You're not going to type faster with the Dvorak layout. Maybe piano lessons would be a better use of time than Dvorak practice. The layout is better for progr
by shrughes 17y ago
You're not going to type faster with the Dvorak layout. Maybe piano lessons would be a better use of time than Dvorak practice.
The layout is better for programming, though, so I recommend learning it. Underscore and hyphen are in the perfect place, and having the comma and period keys on the upper row is nicer for the hands.
Dvorak is a lot better for Emacs, too, if only because C-x stretches out the hand instead of scrunching it up.
I've become ignorant of the benefits of Qwerty, though. For some period of time, I got annoyed by the positioning of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, but eventually I just got used to using two hands for those commands. That's the one specific lingering annoyance that I can think of.
- wglb 17y agoInsofar as the C-x stretches the hand, this depends on the keyboard. I have a Kinesis contoured keyboard, and that chord is one finger closer together than the reach on a conventional keyboard.
- jrockway 17y agoThere is a reason your keyboard has two Control keys; exactly to avoid the awkwardness of combinations like C-x.
- hyyypr 17y agoMy HHKB only got one :) And Vim tends to minimize C-x gymnastics.
- jrockway 17y agoI also have a HHKB. It does technically have only one control key, but how often do you use the right Windows key? I just remapped it... (And if you're a vim user, you remapped the big control key to ESC, right?)
- arundelo 17y agoYes! Speaking of which, anyone happen to know how (in X and at the Linux console) to make both my Alt keys act like Alt keys instead of one being AltGr?
- graphene 17y agoI've struggled with this as well; the closest I've come to solving it was changing the keyboard layout preferences in gnome so that my right windows key now works as alt. I find that works almost as well.
- arundelo 17y agoAh, thanks. I avoid keyboards with Windows keys, though; I use Ctrl and Alt so often that I don't want other keys getting in the way.
- shrughes 17y agoThe other control key is in a completely inaccessible position.