And then I moved colon and semicolon to layers and re-assigned that outer pinky key to my rarely used AltGr key.

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Found the Python developer. Hehe. Thanks for the reminder that we can do this stuff: all the common layouts are just suggestions, we can’t make our lives easier by recognizing that.

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Coleman-DH: just take the plunge

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I’ve been interested in this, but for work I have to use keyboards connected to random computers all the time (and bringing my own keyboard isn’t an option either). I suppose I’m stuck with QWERTY. I just can’t imagine keeping two keyboard layouts in my muscle memory.

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One of us One of us…

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YES.

New title: “I use common letters more than uncommon letters, so I swapped the keys”

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I’m curious what you think about that little joystick; do you find yourself using it much?

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Not yet. When I set it up, I moved the master side to be the right… which caused the axis on the joysticks to rotate 90 degrees. Ha.

I learned how to fix that but haven’t yet. I think I will try to use one side as a scroll wheel. Not sure about the other.

Maybe arrow keys.

In my initial test, they would make a poor primary pointing device.

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Isn’t that “convenient” for you. 😜

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Now you will never be able to quit vim!

I do use AltGr a load for composing non-ASCII characters. It’s currently my inner key where the joystick is. A bit of a stretch but writing C++ in vim pretty much requires the colon/semicolon key on the home row.

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