If you're into shortcuts like I am, you might consider moving ctrl to caps (replacing backspace).  Colemak has easily the highest shortcut density on the left side, and this is like putting it on steroids.

green - unchanged shortcuts
dark purple - improved shortcuts
light purple - improved shortcuts that we probably won't actually use
orange - slightly deproved shortcuts
red - significantly deproved shortcuts
orange - equally good shortcut (but requires relearning)
red - deproved shortcuts

Edit: as a side note, I didn't realize amphetype was so abandoned.  I had just submitted a bug report.

Nice shortcut map, Lalop! But I wouldn't say that Ctrl+S is deteriorated (is 'deprove' a proper word?) even slightly. I have absolutely no problems with it at least.

In general, moving stuff around breaks the programmers' expectations which makes shortcuts worse. It's nice that Colemak works so well with these shortcuts! Also I think it's preferable to not mess overmuch with the shifted number row and such symbols because they're also often needed for shortcuts and coding. So yes – Colemak is a good shortcut layout.

I use the Caps key for much more than just the shortcuts, so I didn't move the Ctrl. Lalop's image still holds true for me, just with slightly more awkward (but quite acceptable) stretches.

Heh. The urban dictionary will tell you far too much you know.... Just don't rely heavily on it if you're in a serious situation, OK? ;)

Personal opinion: 'Deproved' is an unnecessary word which will easily lend itself to confusion with 'disproved' (my intuitive understanding was that 'deprove' signifies a weakening of a proof!). Furthermore, similar word pairs like 'implore' and 'deplore' are not antonyms. Nothing is wrong with 'worsen' for instance. </soapboxmode>

I find that mnemonic shortcuts such as S for Save and F for Find are okay once you know both Colemak and QWERTY well (that is, after the initial confusion of changing layouts). Shortcuts like ZXCV and W are thankfully not moved as they don't have this advantage.

Nope, urban dictionary is 100% legit; I'm even listed there.  Also, implore and deplore seem to be antonyms in spirit, if not exact definition.  However, I do agree that deprove has confusing intuition (though, if one stops and thinks about it, a proof can only be weakened (as opposed to disproved entirely) by weakening its premises or conclusion, which would probably not be called a "deproof").

As for mnemonicness, I'm not sure.  There's no shortcut I remember without remembering what the letter actually is.  The only problem is that the combo is no longer where you expected it to be, which I don't think being mnemonic helps solve.

Yeah, the UD is legit. It's also quite silly, a wiki of people's more or less personal neologisms. Helluva fun read if you have the time!

The subtler points of prefixes are an interesting study. No, I wouldn't say that 'implore' and 'deplore' are antonyms at all – but of course there's a link between them since they share the same latin root ('plorare' – to cry)! The prefixes aren't direct opposites either: 'Im' usually stems from latin 'in' (in; into; not; opposite) whereas 'de' (down; down from; off; concerning) can have both similar and dissimilar meanings but certainly isn't the opposite pole! But enough of that, eh.

The mnemonic value of shortcuts may depend on how you use them. If you're using Vim for instance, you may be trained in thinking about the command names mnemonically linked to the hotkeys. Therefore, Vim really is quite fine with remapping apart from the arrow keys. So once the muscle memory of the S key was learned the hotkey seemed completely in place since I remembered it primarily by the command word 'Save'. That may be a bad example though since the S is problematic to many when learning Colemak from QWERTY. But it's the same with I and O for instance.

Ah – not enough of that then. ;)

What slang language a court needs to understand should hopefully in no notable way constitute a guideline as to what is considered *good* or even generally understandable language!

Even so, you probably did notice the part that goes:

Then let's come up with one.  There's a mostly useless caps lock key that many do replace with one or the other.  (Having caps as backspace is a little more useful, but ultimately not essential as you can instead set it as an AltGr character, while this is much more awkward to try to do with Ctrl or shift.)

The other spots I can think of are the middle (in the case of a wide layout; the problem being this is also pretty hard to reach), replacing '" (which would then be shifted upwards - but you can't really do this if you're already on a wide layout), or even replacing the enter key (though I don't think I'd recommend this, the enter being very useful).

Oh wow, I've never realized what sticky keys actually were. Sweet! (although this will take some time getting used to)..

I'm still not sure it's worth moving shift over to caps in lieu of ctrl, but I suppose it depends also on your typing style.

Esc is another non-modifier character, like backspace. You should limit the valuable side slots (the caps/shift keys) for modifiers, putting the non-mods as modifier characters, e.g. AltGr-f for backspace, AltGr-t for ESC.   This is because, no matter how useful the non-modifier key might be, the modifier key can be used for some twenty other keys (or, in the case of ctrl, for about 8-12 other keys very often).

Edit: I'm not really sure sticky keys are good for intricate commands.  Combos like AltGr and Ctrl have to be pressed in the right order, a little bif of a pain.  Due to repeated modifier presses, you can get an additional keypress for every chained key (so C-x C-f goes from effectively two to four keypresses), which may be okay if you're Sean Wrona, but not really for the rest of us.  Especially since such combos have a high level of repeated characters.

Edit 2: Another thing I've noticed about is that, as long as you're typing fast enough, shift+key is often indistinguishable from shift->key.  So I'm not entirely sure how much it adds to this most basic combi.