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Why don't you give up and map your keyboard to US for programming, like all the rest of us? :-) (It is not so bad to hit both shift keys to get back åäö.) Edi
by berntb 14y ago
Why don't you give up and map your keyboard to US for programming, like all the rest of us? :-)
(It is not so bad to hit both shift keys to get back åäö.)
Edit: mpyne -- good thought, but we international users have our national keyboards in the fingertips, it is imho generally easier to switch layouts.
Edit 2: dkersten -- my productivity-porn time wasting is used up by browsing Emacs packages. :-) I'll check it out if I get wrist problems.
- dkersten 14y agoPfft, why don't you give up and map your keyboard to Colemak for programming (and everything else), like.. well.. the few people like me.. ;-)
- krenoten 14y agoDid you completely lose your ability to use non-colemak layouts after switching, as I recently have?
- dkersten 14y agoI can use it, but I can't touchtype it, so I do feel a little stupid sometimes typing on qwerty and probably couldn't do it without at least glancing at my hands. Its worth it for me though because I spend so much more typing on my own colemak keyboard than I type on qwerty.
- reeses 14y agoThe standard recommendation is to type Sholes 5-10 minutes a day to maintain your ability to hurt your wrists. I haven't bothered to do that and it's a good thing I leave my keycaps alone for the few times I run a VM that is stuck in US layout. I've lost the rolls and fingerings as I've gained them with Colemak. It's really sad when I have to use someone else's computer, but then I remember that my emails were never longer than a tweet when I first started with Colemak.
- mpyne 14y agoUS-intl (w/ dead key) is actually surprisingly useful for accented characters, from what I could tell on the infrequent occasion I have to try it out.
- epsylon 14y agoYep, US-international works better for me than the french azerty layout for typing french: the latter has no dedicated key for characters like Ç or É.