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Since putting together my ErgoMax a month back, I found myself feeling increasingly less keen to get back to productive stuff, which in my case is programming.

Yesterday I had a moment of clarity on the irritation that I couldn’t previously quite put my finger on — it was the steady hassle of having to fiddle with layer shifting and other mod keys such as shift or command, to type in even just a few lines of code.

How do all the programmers deal with having to constantly key in “, [] and {}, sometimes with cmd, ctrl etc keys held down, on boards without dedicated keys for them?

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[–] redchlorophyll 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Many people are forgetting the simplest answer here. Just use a full size keyboard. They are abundant and cheap. They come with ALL THE KEYS and don't make you layer shift in order to efficiently achieve what you need to do.

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

🤔 This is posted in ergomechkeyboards; full-size true ergo boards are pretty uncommon.

[–] redchlorophyll -3 points 1 year ago

It sounds like an ergo board isn't the tool for the job then