Since putting together my ErgoMax a month back, I found myself feeling increasingly less keen to get back to productive stuff, which in my case is programming.
Yesterday I had a moment of clarity on the irritation that I couldn’t previously quite put my finger on — it was the steady hassle of having to fiddle with layer shifting and other mod keys such as shift or command, to type in even just a few lines of code.
How do all the programmers deal with having to constantly key in “, [] and {}, sometimes with cmd, ctrl etc keys held down, on boards without dedicated keys for them?
Not on an ergo but on a 60% with the shitty (for programming) french layout. I mapped all the useful and scattered symbols on caps-lock + a key next to it, so I can access them by an easy left hand chord instead of an awkward thumb-and-stretched-out-finger-to-the-other-side-of-the-keyboard chord.
CapsLock+A=“[”, CapsLock+Z=“]”, CapsLock+E=“#”
Capslock+Q=“{”, CapsLock+S=“}”, CapsLock+D=“|”
Capslock+W=“(”, CapsLock+X=“)”, CapsLock+C=""