Re:Coolest custom mechanical keyboards
by oneeyedpigeon on Monday December 28, 2020 @10:08AM
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macOS here — I never use the F-keys. I also always disable capslock because I never use that either. Having said that, I do make a lot of use of modifier+key for symbols such as quote marks, apostrophes, and dashes, so I'd love a keyboard where those characters are first class keys. Also, typing '#' is a pain on many (?) mac keyboards.
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I think that's unique to the mac UK layout? # is usually on shift-3, so to accommodate £ on the same, they moved # to alt-3. Yuck.
For me - There's another layout named "ABC - Extended", which reverses the two - so £ is on alt-3, but # is back where it belongs. It has a very different compose set behind the alt modifier though, so might be jarring if you frequently use them.
Re:Coolest custom mechanical keyboards
by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:07AM
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Yup, that must be what it is — frustrating because I need a £ symbol probably less than 1 percent as often as I need a #. I'm more-or-less used to it but every now and then I'll get the wrong modifier and do something like switch to tab #3 instead...
Re:Coolest custom mechanical keyboards
by Symbiote on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:35AM
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That's unfortunate (although for the majority of people in Britain, £ is obviously much more common).
The British PC keyboard layout has # as a first-level key (next to Enter), and some Windows + Mac users manage to set the Mac to use this layout.