I’ve used a US-QWERTY keyboard layout my entire life. I’ve seen other layouts that do things like reduce the size of the enter/backspace keys, move the pipe operator (|) and can’t wrap my head around how I would code on those.
What are your experiences? Are there any layouts that you prefer for coding over US English? Are there any symbols that you have a hard time reaching ( for example)?
I use colemak and swap the caps lock and backspace keys. It works well for both coding and typing in non-english languages that I know. But those are just the ones that I know
represent!
oh shit you have the actual physical layout! did you move the keys yourself?
I popped the keys off my Topre with a keycap puller and rearranged them. Both the Backspace and Caps Lock function as a backspace, but I couldn’t find a keycap labeled “Backspace” that physically fit in the Caps Lock key’s place so that particular label is deceiving.
Yay Colemak!
I use both Colemak and Qwerty, with one layout at home and the other at work. I have carried the caps lock remapping to Qwerty, although I’ve been mulling whether to replace that with the Esc function, since I use vim a lot. I never learned vim arrow keys, so no change needed there.
Agreed that it works well for other languages besides English.