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Great writeup, although it bothers me that he dismisses Dvorak so quickly. Although I've never personally used it, reading articles tells me that it's been rega
by benbenolson 10y ago
Great writeup, although it bothers me that he dismisses Dvorak so quickly. Although I've never personally used it, reading articles tells me that it's been regarded as the "best" layout for many use cases for a very long time. He said that he typed one command, `ls -latr`, shook his head and dismissed it. Can anyone clarify as to why?
- pklausler 10y agoThat particular sequence uses the right-hand pinky finger a lot. I think 'L' and '-' would be better on Dvorak if they were swapped. But throwing out the whole layout because of one UNIX shell command seems to me like he was looking for a justification. Dvorak gets all the basics right and can be found everywhere; to me, the differences with other ergonomic layouts are probably less than the error of measurement.
- aclissold 10y agoYup. alias ao='ls' alias aoe='ls -l' alias aou='ls -a' alias aoeu='ls -la' Problem solved!
- benbenolson 10y agoYeah, it does seem like that command is rather arbitrarily chosen. Most people don't type `ls -latr` over and over again.
- Symbiote 10y agoThose keys would produce P; 'PAKO on Qwerty, try typing that. I prefer "ls -lrta", since LRT is easier to type (Qwerty: POK). Having said that, on systems I used frequently, I have some aliases defined: alias h=ls alias hh=ls -l alias lrt=ls -lrt alias lrta=ls -lrta I've used Dvorak for about a decade, and have never looked back. It occasionally annoys colleagues, but I have alias aoeu='setxkbmap gb -option' alias asdf='setxkbmap gb dvorak -option compose:menu,ctrl:swapcaps' for easy switching. (No doubt KDE/Gnome offer something to do this, but 12 years ago when I added these aliases I was using a wide variety of machines at university.)