Ask HN: Best keyboard layout for programming? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best keyboard layout for programming?

#11

Post by hnjake » Sat, May 13, 2017, 7:14 AM UTC

madamelic wrote: post #5

You should use whichever lets you work easiest. I have a few keybindings on my keyboard because it makes my life easier but others have different keybindings. I use a Poker2 or Poker3 and I make the Win key Fn and I switch Capslock and F12 and my terminal is pulled up with F12 (meaning I can hit Capslock to get my terminal)

How do you find the Poker2? I have one and tried it for 6 months. But I always felt cramped, hard to explain. Might be because it is brown switches, where I use blues for all my other keyboards.

Re: Ask HN: Best keyboard layout for programming?

#12

Post by probinso » Mon, May 15, 2017, 3:29 AM UTC

ApL keyboard makes it easier to apl

Re: Ask HN: Best keyboard layout for programming?

#13

Post by madamelic » Tue, May 16, 2017, 9:24 PM UTC

hnjake wrote: post #11

madamelic wrote: post #5

You should use whichever lets you work easiest. I have a few keybindings on my keyboard because it makes my life easier but others have different keybindings. I use a Poker2 or Poker3 and I make the Win key Fn and I switch Capslock and F12 and my terminal is pulled up with F12 (meaning I can hit Capslock to get my terminal)

How do you find the Poker2? I have one and tried it for 6 months. But I always felt cramped, hard to explain. Might be because it is brown switches, where I use blues for all my other keyboards.

Hah, mine is Cherry Browns as well.

I enjoy it. I used a $10 Wal-mart one before this one and I haven't tried any others.

I enjoy it because it is small and light. I used to take mine to work until my work bought one for me.

I bought it mostly for the size. I never really used the number bad, dedicated arrows were pointless to me. Basically the only thing I ever really use is numbers, symbols and letters so a small keyboard works for me.