Cursorless is alien magic from the future

Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by dempedempe on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:26AM (#38219999)

Keyboards with thumb clusters are definitely the best option, but in my experience, even on a normal keyboard, simply remapping your keys makes a world of difference.

Here are some of my most useful remaps:

- Swap enter and semicolon. Enter is one of my most used keys. It should be "directly accessible"

- Make right command backspace. Backspace is another key I very commonly use, but it's far away and causes a lot of pain. Now, it's right under my thumb! (Regular backspace key is now forward delete).

- Make caps lock and enter control. (When pressed with other keys). This is useful for Emacs commands.

- Caps lock is escape when not pressed with other keys.

- Enter is semicolon when not pressed with other keys.

I use Karabiner for Mac to do my remappings.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by globular-toast on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:50AM (#38220334)

The "when not pressed with other keys" stuff is interesting. I never thought about that. The only trouble I can see with this is being unable to type effectively on a normie keyboard. I've had the ctrl/caps swap for years and I regular mess it up on a normie keyboard, although it's no big deal to accidentally press caps, of course. What I like is my portable mechanical keyboard has a physical switch, so it works whatever computer I plug it in to.

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