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I too found Colemak lacking. IMO it's because the most relevant keyboard layout metrics are 1) how well words break down into same hand "finger rolls", which h
by htns 10y ago
I too found Colemak lacking. IMO it's because the most relevant keyboard layout metrics are
1) how well words break down into same hand "finger rolls", which help typing accuracy and to lesser extend speed
2) how often the same finger has to type multiple characters in succession
3) how often the same hand has to reach for the more awkward middle keys (y and b in qwerty) while also doing something with the middle finger
Finger travel distance is irrelevant. Common characters ought to be on the home row because your fingers can't roll across the top and bottom row.
Dvorak optimizes these very well. Workman seems to split bigrams across two hands, which prevents rolls. I would also recommend binding alt-gr to control in addition to making caps lock backspace.
- pklausler 10y agowhoa, you map Caps Lock to backspace, not control?
- htns 10y agoYes, since capslock+a is awkward to press. Altgr + any key can be hit without strain, at least if you have a keyboard that doesn't place altgr too far to the right.
- pklausler 10y agoGot it. Agree that caps lock + A is hard; I didn't assign a command meaning to ^A in my editor design for that reason (at first) and because ^A is the default escape sequence in 'screen'.