The Qwerty N position is very silly indeed for the second most common consonant. It does neatly put into perspective such minor details as the M/K issue.
If I knew five years ago what I know now, I'd be tempted to try Qwerty T/F and N/J swaps, just to get the two most frequent consonants under my index fingers, eliminating two diagonal stretches.
]]>I wouldn't mind trying out "walking the Planck" at some point, but now I am used to the angle mod, I am concerned that the straight columns might be hard to adjust to. And I would have the M/K dilemma to contend with!
I wonder why you prefer the Planck to the Let's Split? They seem pretty much the same apart from the, erm, split. Which to me would be a big advantage, as by angling the two halves slightly, it would be possible to somewhat replicate the angle-mod.
]]>I'm thinking about Tap Dance (allowing different things to happen depending on number of taps):
Haha, it's an interesting idea, but would quickly start to feel a bit like morse code! For the standard shift keys it would be pretty awful. Mind you, even with thumb keys, I can't see how it would be better than simply using the thumb key as a layer and then having your brackets on a normal key. You could even have the thumb key sticky if you were against holding the keys down.
On a related note though, it makes me think how it would be possible to invent a typing system that only had ten keys - one for each digit - and then each characters is typed using a sequence. Common letters might only have a sequence of two, rarer characters would require longer sequences.
]]>I see a problem with it: Same-finger bigrams aren't generally so nice. One could take it very far but the ergonomic cost in repeatedly tapping one key would increase correspondingly.
So... how about a real tap-dance movement? I imagine (Calling LShift/RShift LS/RS for this purpose):
• LS-RS: (
• RS-LR: )
• LS-RS-LS: [
• RS-LS-RS: ]
• LS-RS-LS-RS: {
• RS-LS-RS-LS: }
etc
It'd be a higher number of presses for the brackets and braces than normal AltGr operation, but with a nice alternation and no holding down a modifier. Might this be a good idea?
Not sure, it could be a little tough on the pinkies for normal Shift key placement – or? What about thumb Shift users?
It shouldn't be too hard to implement in TMK at least.
]]>it genuinely looks like someone has snapped the fekker in two
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