Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards
Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)
i.e. no regular non-split¹ row-stagger and no non-split¹ ortholinear²
¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid
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I've been looking for a long time for a solution to not having a desk, or room for one. This tiny bedside table barely fits anything... I was using a regular mouse on the bed and dangling a regular keyboard half off the table, which didn't work so great as you can imagine lol. Now I've got this Ploopy Adept trackball and a FalbaTech Atreus62_FT keyboard. Switched to Colemak-dh layout just to make the transition as jarring as possible 😝
You don't use the arrow keys in vim sequence? Could be good for muscle memory.
Truth be told, I'm not much of a coder lol. What little I do is mostly all in like VSCode or Kate. Vim is some kind of terminal based editor right? What's "vim sequence"?
Yes, but there is also VScode vim for example.
The vim keys directional arrows are hjkl on your key board (left down up right) and they are on the homerow, meaning you don't need to move your hands away as much.
You have a different order but I thought you could use the same as vim, as you'll find (in programmer's world anyway) that other programs use these for their directional keys too.
Ahh i see! Do you think that order would also be more suitable for gaming?
Hmm depends on what you're used to I guess.
Ok, so i almost took your advice. I made it "left up down right". It feels much more natural for me than "left down up right", I think for two reasons: 1, I'm left-handed and usually have my left hand on the mouse, and 2, the staggering makes this up key physically further forward than the down key. But it does feel much better than what I had before, thanks!
Cool board! What are you using those middle two keys for?
They came as Enter and Delete and I haven't changed them yet. Enter is pretty intuitive and useful being there, not sure about Delete though! Any suggestions?
I used similar ones on my ergodox for pgup/pgdn, but I was doing lots of work with pdfs. Maybe layer keys?
That does seem like a good idea, i don't love where M(0) is currently
They came as Enter and Delete and I haven't changed them yet. Enter is pretty intuitive and useful being there, not sure about Delete though! Any suggestions?