On Feb 28, 7:30 pm, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 28, 11:39 pm, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You miss the canonical bad character reuse case: = vs ==. > > > Had there been more meta keys, it might be nice to have a symbol for > > each key on the keyboard. I personally have experimented with putting > > the symbols as regular keys and the numbers as the Shifted versions. > > It's great for programming. > > Hmmm... Clever! > Is it X or Windows? > Can I have your setup?
hi Russ, there's a programer's dvorak layout i think is bundled with linux. or you can do it with xmodmap on X-11 or AutoHotKey on Windows, or within emacs... On the mac, you can use keyboardMaestro, Quickeys, or just write a os wide config file yourself. You can see tutorials and sample files for all these here http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/keyboarding.html i'd be interested to know what Dotan Cohen use too. i tried the swapping number row with symbols a few years back. didn't like it so much because numbers are frequently used as well, especially when you need to enter a series of numbers. e.g. heavy math, or dates 2010-02-28. One can use the number pad but i use that as extra programable buttons. Xah > One problem we programmers face is that keyboards were made for > typists not programmers. > Another is that when we move from 'hi-level' questions eg code reuse > -- to lower and lower -- eg ergonomics of reading and writing code -- > the focus goes from the center of consciousness to the periphery and > we miss how many inefficiencies there are in our semi-automatic > actions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
