Emacs Keyboard Design 34: Grid Layout Revisited

The latest iteration places space and return well and the modifiers are all present and easily reached. How would it look in a grid layout?

• Start with design 33
• Left-align the rows on 1, Q, A, Z
• Keep F-space and J-space aligned
• Make shift 1x
• Add a gap after G to put halves as far apart as possible
  • Only 2 rows available, not enough for a gap, put it back
• Move PgUp and PgDn above right arrow
  • Use them together frequently
• Insert and Delete are stacked right of Back Space
  • Logically close
• Home and End right of Fn
• Between Shift and PgUp and Below Fn there are 3 places open so move in there
  • PrSc
  • Scroll Lock
  • Pause Break
  • Last 2 are debatable
  • Want to fill space and layers would be ugly here
• Added separator after 5
  • Original thought was to make them separable
  • Also have no obvious need for that column
  • Left I and II on each side to encourage using both hands
• Added re-legendable keys as “Ghosted”
  • Screenflow is the first candidate
  • Everything else is easy to do in Emacs
• PauseBreak and ScrollLock might not need to be there
• A Mouse layer might be nice, but then again, no