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The alt keyboard layout thing was once appealing but I’m over it for two reasons. 1) I don’t think it is useful to write faster than I can ‘think’. What I like about writing is that I can hone my thoughts to be sharper than they would in everyday speech by reworking them over and over. 2) I grew up bilingual and learned another language to some degree along the way. Most alt keyboard layouts are optimized towards typ…
Thank you for advice, I am tinkering with Emacs rn. > I don’t think it is useful to write faster than I can ‘think’. What I like about writing is that I can hone my thoughts to be sharper than they would in everyday speech by reworking them over and over. Sorry for an offtopic but a decent layout is not so much about speed, it is about helping to get rid of some needness to watch the keyboard. If you can not enter yo…
Re: Ask HN: Why is there so many different text editors?
#11Yes QWERTY works well enough for me, mainly because I’ve been using it for 25 years. (I’ve learned touch typing in school 27 years ago) I often find it harder to find the right key when looking at the keyboard now and my “main” problems are between small differences in keyboard layouts (mac vs pc, QWERTZ vs QWERTY (uk, us, int)).