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Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
#144Along the same lines: 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't, but I know quite a lot who swear by them. Do they actually increase productivity ? 2. Should caps lock be removed as a large button in the most valuable real-estate-area on the keyboard ? I literally never use it. Even when typing long ALL-CAPS sequences. I just use 'shift' instead. 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? I only use…
I use home and end a ton, but I didn't until about a year ago. They're fantastic, and it's a bit faster than Esc + Shift-I/A in Vim, plus it works on everything (except on MacOS).
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
#145I use Kensington Pro trackballs (four buttons with a scroll ring).
I use them on Mac OS and 9front currently as my primary machines, and they're useful with both the sam and acme editors, as well as all throughout Plan 9/9front.
Chording for cut/paste, and running commands from the mouse is very fast if you've got complex things to do.
I think if I could get a reasonable chording keyboard (like Douglas Englebart demo'd or in similar spirit), I'd probably find ways to use that as well.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
#146Along the same lines: 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't, but I know quite a lot who swear by them. Do they actually increase productivity ? 2. Should caps lock be removed as a large button in the most valuable real-estate-area on the keyboard ? I literally never use it. Even when typing long ALL-CAPS sequences. I just use 'shift' instead. 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? I only use…
You might benefit from a Kinesis Freestyle Pro keyboard.
The spacebar is split (the whole keyboard is actually) and all the buttons are completely configurable: remap and macros.
If you don't use home and end keys, or the left-side spacebar (or any key!) you can bind them to whatever you want.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
#147Along the same lines: 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't, but I know quite a lot who swear by them. Do they actually increase productivity ? 2. Should caps lock be removed as a large button in the most valuable real-estate-area on the keyboard ? I literally never use it. Even when typing long ALL-CAPS sequences. I just use 'shift' instead. 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? I only use…
1. I've been using home/end extensively for decades. I had a Windows computer since early 90s and started learning to code on notepad so I never learned ctrl-a/e until later on, so I stuck with home/end. In modern days work laptops are alwasy Macs so in fact I've had to map home/end to work like it does on Windows (go to beginning and end of line).
2. Similarly since I now use a Mac more often than Windows, I just map Caps Lock to Esc. This has been particularly important due to the Esc key having been moved to the touchbar. I've gotten very used to reaching for the location of the Caps Lock key when I need to press Esc.
3. I do use space bars with both hands.
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#148I have a Moonlander from ZSA. Flippin' sweet keyboard. I have a layer for mouse movement with wasd. On the same layer, I've bound hjkl to the arrow keys, so I can get vimish movement wherever. Below these keys on the same layer I have some browser navigation shortcuts. I use evil-mode in Emacs. The key below my left thumb is control on hold, escape on tap, and it works beautifully. On my left thumb cluster, I have a…
The Moonlander is great. I have Cmd+Shift+R (Refresh) and Cmd+Alt+I (Dev tools) on the two big red keys. On my navigation layer I have distinct keys for emacs navigation: C-x [, C-x ] (page forward/backward) and ESC f, ESC b (word forward/backward). And I have Ctrl+Cmd+Space (MacOS emoji picker) on a single key. My layout: https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/4DrXo/XxmmW/0
Oooh, the emoji picker is a great idea! I just added that to one of my layers. Thanks for the tip!
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
#149I have a Moonlander from ZSA. Flippin' sweet keyboard. I have a layer for mouse movement with wasd. On the same layer, I've bound hjkl to the arrow keys, so I can get vimish movement wherever. Below these keys on the same layer I have some browser navigation shortcuts. I use evil-mode in Emacs. The key below my left thumb is control on hold, escape on tap, and it works beautifully. On my left thumb cluster, I have a…
Do you ever turn on chip-tunes mode? The first time I did I couldn't remember how I turned it on. That was a fun few minutes
I had that on for a minute to play with. There's a keycode called "Music Toggle" in the Oryx configurator. I don't think I have that on any of my keys right now.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? I use both a lot while coding, usually in conjunction with ctrl+left or ctrl+right for quickly positioning the cursor where I want it, or ctrl+home or ctrl+end to quickly go to the top or bottom respectively. > 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? Yes, not often while programming,…
> what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? The kind where my typing speed does not affect my output. Also, the type who doesn't use command line text editors. I work in ML and mostly use python. Very rarely do I need to be efficient in how I navigate my documents/code, because it is rarely the bottle neck. Lastly, all my laptops have both end/home positioned awkwardly, so I never found it quite…
This is also my case. I spend all my day on a computer (and then the evening for fun) but a lot is thinking.
I always wanted to learn to touch type but never needed it so much that it would be worth to dedicate time for learning.
I do code a lot but I am a poor dev so I spend time thinking how to do things out looking at the docs (despite coding for 30 years).
It was even more obvious when doing my thesis (physics). 70% time thinking about code, 30 actually typing