Peter CockNote to self: Since the letter Q is a chord (2-key combo) on my #HandsDownPromethium #KeyboardLayout, I should add or change my #HelixEditor shortcut for quit to something else… maybe add crtl+x to match my Nano & #Emacs muscle memory?
@vavakado for my #KeyboardLayout I'm using a variant of #HandsDownPromethium https://www.reddit.com/r/KeyboardLayouts/comments/1g66ivi/hands_down_promethium_snth_meets_hd_silverengram/ (which has a vim cursor cluster but I rarely use it), and the modal #HelixEditor in the terminal. I picked it as I wanted to try a letter on a thumb key (#ErgoKeyboard), and it scored well on various metrics (and was the new hotness at the time).
In hindsight, if I had bought the 32-key #FishKeyboard and learnt the #OnishiLayout my #ErgonomicKeyboard journey would have been a bit different.
Instead I’m designing my own 32-key #MechanicalKeyboard(s), learnt #HandsDownPromethium, and am learning the #NaginataStyle Japanese kana #KeyboardLayout.
Maybe not that different?
The sticker surgery to update the labels to match my revised #HandsDownPromethium layout variation went as well as expected. This now matches my #ErgonomicKeyboard (which has blank keycaps).
The stickers do come off pretty cleanly, fingernails are safer if you can get traction - forceps can scratch, and the black coating on the Apple underglow key caps is surprisingly thin.
Comma and period are now semicolon and colon when shifted, needing spliced stickers.
The right index finger top key with the “<“ label is now backspace like #NaginataStyle - rather unusual in the English focused #KeyboardLayout world.
My #ZMK config is at https://github.com/peterjc/zmk-config and the #KarabinerElements version for the laptop at https://codeberg.org/peterjc/kana-chording-ke/src/branch/main/hands-down-on-jis-macbook
I’m pretty pleased how my #KeyboardLayout rendering came out - #HandsDownPromethium for English, and #NaginataStyle #薙刀式 #大岡俊彦 for #Japanese - see https://github.com/peterjc/zmk-config with configuration for the rendering tool https://github.com/caksoylar/keymap-drawer which outputs SVG which you can customise with CSS:
If it wasn’t obvious from recent posts, I have fallen into the world of #ErgonomicKeyboard / #MechanicalKeyboard / #KeyboardLayouts ⌨
My #CorneKeyboard arrived from Ali Express this week, I've already tried one new layout, and just today I filed my first issue and pull request on a public repository related to this new “hobby”: https://github.com/aradzie/keybr.com/issues/400
That's for the https://www.keybr.com/ touch-typing platform, and a very recent layout called #HandsDownPromethium which has the letter R and space on thumb keys.
