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Now we have room to do a proper fancy return key, and fit all 4 macro buttons in the top right, so we can get page up and page down back (above the right arrow key).
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I also suffer from rheumatism, and I spent years (and many hundreds of dollars) trying out split keyboards before finding out that my problems had nothing to do with wrist positions. I'm now typing comfortably on a rectangular chiclet (Apple Magic) keyboard.
I tried some mechanical keyboards back in the day for the "benefits". I never got it and my hands would be strained from typing on the high travel, high resistance keys. The Apple Keyboard (I use the UK/English International) is so much easier on my hands. They're easy to find, well-supported and robust.
There are also many mechanical switches with little travel and low force (eg. Choc v1, Kailh Super Speed).
I am continually baffled by how keyboard enthusiasts almost never have ergonomic layouts. If you care this much about typing, surely the first thing you do is get an ergo layout. The rectangle layout is really bad, people! How can you spend this much time and energy and money on keyboards, and keep using the awful rectangle layout?
Just got myself a Glove80 with the linear Choc Pro Red switchtes (35gf). Glad I held off on other keyboards for this. It's so satisfying to type on. It's only been more than a couple of days and I already got the hand of it for the most part. Trying Coleman makes it even easier and I plan on being proficient on Coleman and qwerty.
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There is the world of ergo and/or split keyboards, which is quite fascinating, but rather expensive to `try one that best fits me`. (Ergodox EZ, Kineses advantage, OLKB splits and many more) There is also the Alice layout, which is an interesting step towards ergonomics on a traditional keyboard. I wish there was a keyboard club or something that let you try these out for a week or so.
> I wish there was a keyboard club or something that let you try these out for a week or so. There's a useful tool for comparing ergo layouts and printing out 1:1 scale templates to get an idea of how they would fit your hand size: https://compare.splitkb.com It's not quite a substitute for actually using a real keyboard, but it can help to narrow down what you might want to try.
(Now using a Glove80, which provides benefits over the Advantage2 and doesn't have the issues of the Advantage360 Pro.)
> A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control next to A. I don't get it, why is this a hard requirement?
Vim reasons I'm guessing
Meh, no lambda key.
Caps Lock is now Compose so I can write everyone's name correctly.
My GNU screen escape key is ` with `~ for a literal `. I never ever type ` because $() is the right way to do subshells. If I need to paste something with ` in it, I temporarily change this. I live in screen, even starting X11 programs from it, so this is more important than the actual Esc key!