Ask HN: Do you use Dvorak or any alternative typing / input technology?

Re:Ask HN: Do you use Dvorak or any alternative typing / inp... by monroewalker on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:47PM (#25502958)

Just found a layout called "Workman" which seems to be a more reasonably designed layout for programming. Also has a "Workman-P" variant which switches the number/symbol keys so that shift is needed for numbers and the symbols insert with a regular press. https://github.com/workman-layout/Workman

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use Dvorak or any alternative typing / inp... by mech422 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:30AM (#25503214)

this is a rabbit hole that can go pretty deep... there are actually a couple of well known programs for generating layouts, that let you optimize the layout based on your corpus..This(1) is probably a good place to start. I believe these(2)(3) are some of the more commonly used tools, though its been a while since I looked.

1: http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_layout_keybinding.html

2: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?readme

3: http://www.michaelcapewell.com/programming/keyboardevolve.ht...

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