Mechanical Keyboards

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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] 1 points 4 days ago

I haven't tried it with vim in full yet, but I was surprised by how comfortable the hjkl positions are in dvorak. i like tiling window managers with win+vi keys for navigation and such, so it would be important. Dvorak L is kind of annoying at P, and I'm trying to make myself hit it with the pinky usually, but it actually feels alright for keying around in navigation.

I mostly don't want to have to end up rebinding everything, possibly for every program I use indefinitely, if I stick with the layout. So I'm just learning the new positions to start, and will probably always need a way to switch to qwerty for games.