Use standard scancodes and nothing more.
- Thoughts and changes from 19 follow
- Nearly everything interesting I want to do with the keyboard I can do in Emacs
- Emacs runs everywhere I care about
- Emacs handles USB HID keyboard correctly, use that
- Save time: don’t have to program layout for OS X and Windows
- Keep modifiers near center
- Look weird having duplicates, but it will put more space between home position. Curious if it provides any comfort.
- Keep space and return large and easy to hit
- Keep shift near the pinky
- Goes against original goals
- Power of familiarity override
- Can still claw-crab it
- Page and row navigation are placed somewhat randomly, and I still like it because the navigation keys are still close together
- Tab couldn’t go any higher
- Backspace and delete are nice, looking forward to trying that
- There are more two-handed operations
- That is OK because they are strong-finger operations
- Stays true to thumb-index-middle goal
- I’ll configure Greek and APL bindings inside of Emacs
- Might get keycaps with them listed
- Won’t implement in hardware/os though
- Layout occupies 8×16
- All keys are used
- Not a good goal in and of itself
- Turned out that layout makes sense because backspace and delete are important. If they were one-key operations, tab too, I could remove 2 columns from this layout.
- Can I buy 3 wide keys anywhere?