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I bought this clacky thing and started using emacs for the third(?) time. (midwest.social)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And now I'm (slowly) typing this in dvorak.

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The vi keys are better than qwerty's home row. It's been two days and I'll die on this hill.

Is it terminal?

Edit: Guess I should mention it's a Nuphy Air60 V2 given the com. I was a bit hasty.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you expand on your setup?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

As far as the keyboard, I got a Nuphy Air60 V2 as my first. Maybe not super top, but it's comfy and I'm loving it. Emacs is a rabbithole, unless you wanna get into that too lol

Oh, and the switches are Nuphy's special moss LPs. I think they're supposed to be like slightly heavier browns?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did you reprogram reach key until you had dvorak layout, or is there a preset or something? I'm also not sure what youre doing with emacs or really what it even is 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Also thought I'd mention keyd (if you use linux). It's a system-wide remapper. I considered whether to use software or the firmware, just because keyd has such a neat spec with layers, oneshots, and key overloads. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I used Via because there's a qmk version of the firmware, and yeah, I just set one of the layers to the layout. The Nuphy has a switch for Win/Mac mode that toggles between layer 1 (with 2 and 3 for modifiers) and 4 (with 5 and 6 for modifiers), so I can switch easily between qwerty. I actually did that to finish this cause I'm still slow as hell lol.

Emacs is "just" a text editor that's an operating system in disguise, waaaay too configurable and macro'd out than any software should be. Or like all software should be, maybe.