This layout feels a little more true to it’s goals.
Author: grant
Every Emacser Can Use Hyper on Every USB HID Keyboard
Every Emacser wishes that they could use Hyper.
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Emacs Keyboard Design Strategy
Keyboard design is a delicate balance between the subtlety of poetry and the simplicity of a sledgehammer.
Here is how I scoped down millions of permutations into something more manageable that may result in an actual keyboard within the next year.
Emacs Keyboard Design 13
Prototype Your Keyboard Layout First: X-keys XKE-128
Ortho-Linear keyboards are great. Before laying down the cash it would be nice to see how it feels. All of the different layouts look interesting too. It would be nice to easily try them out with a new layer or something. It seems like there might be a nice option.
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clojure.core/typing – Matt Adereth
- Nice presentation on one hacker’s obsession/pursuit
- Making keyboards with Clojure sounds fun!
- Reveals the obsession+expressivity of utilizing a keyboard as a craftsman
- Any machine that required text input resulted in someone designing a keyboard
- Other observations will go in scoping notes
matias tactilepro4
Delightful things about the matias tactilepro4
- Alps switches
- Mac modifier key caps
- Mac Fn: screen brightness, volume, and apparently more
- Caps have option and shift-option keys listed
- Laser etched caps
- Sculpted caps
- USB hub
- No ghosting
Ortho-Linear Emacs and VI Keyboard Designs 1-7
Keyboard Layout Editor is powerful. It lets you easily explore layouts. As you type on them in your mind’s eye, you really “try out” the keyboad. Just put your hands on your current keyboard and do your best. At every try you learn something new about what you want. It is like programming with Elisp!
The following are my first 7 revisions of my experimental keyboard layout.
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Ortho-Linear Emacs and VI Keyboard Design 8
For creating key-binding name-spaces (key-spaces), modifier keys, key-chords (single and dual key) and Hydras each have unique strengths. For my use case, I wanted a bigger modifier key-space so I started there with Super.
Although Super is supposed to be reserved non-native packages, it is already getting scarfed up because the native key-spaces are painfully overcrowded. To top it off, when you run Emacs on Windows, Windows intercepts a bunch of key-presses for itself and never sends them to Emacs. Yea you can disable some, but not all and it is irritating. For my configuration, this is a showstopper issue and all of workaround are too painful. I enjoy using modifier keys, so I turned to Hyper.
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Ëmäcs and the Heavy Metal Umlaut
Jon’s article reveals the Möglichkeiten for inputting umlauts in Emacs. Maybe you’ve been avoiding some words because they are difficult to input. In particular, maybe you’ve been avoiding using the Metal umlaut.
For example:
- Motörhead (RIP Lemmy)
- Mötley Crüe
- Queensrÿche (Version 1)
- Blue Öyster Cult
It seems perfectly natural to apply to Emacs, christening it:
Ëmäcs
Give it some time to grow on you, because Magnar Sveen has already established that Ëmäcs Rocks!
Addendum:
Re-published because I broke my RSS feed syndicated for Planet Emacsen and @hober fixed it. Thank you @hober.