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)?

  • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee
    3·
    9 months ago

    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

    • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.

        • xoggy@programming.dev
          2·
          9 months ago

          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.