Re:Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
by yes_but_no on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:19PM
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Are you familiar with the Ignore Mod Interrupt option of qmk? That solved that issue for me, depending on your typing style it might solve for you too.
Another option is moving those keys to bottom row, or moving layers to combos to free thumb keys to for mods or move mods to combos as one shots.
Re:Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
by ctvo on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:52PM
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I just flashed one of my keyboards with the "official" ZMK layout and it's so much better. I must have missed quite a few settings when I tried replicating it myself. I can't notice the delay at all.
Re:Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
by 1-more on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:24PM
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My strategy on my Let's Split and now Iris is that I select layers by holding down left hand Homerow keys, then type with my right hand. Holding f turns my right side into Vim style arrows. Holding s turns it into a number pad, and holding s turns it into a symbol pad. Modifiers are where you'd expect but holding them types my most commonly used symbols {} under Options, Esc and Enter under Commands, <> under Hypers. Control is where you'd expect caps lock and ' but tapping those are " and ' respectively.
So what I'm saying is use home row hold/tap just for layer selects that will only affect the other hand, and use hold/tap modifiers for programming symbols.
For those not familiar, to get down to this low number of keys, some layouts will place modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt, meta) as secondary actions (when the key is held down vs. tapped) on home row keys (asdf, jkl; on QWERTY). The problem is to distinguish a tap from a hold, there's a minimum delay before the key is sent, making it very annoying for fast typists as there may be visible input lag when hitting one of the home row keys.