Re: Re: COLEMAK layout?

I use AutoHotKey to remap CTRL ; to COPY and CTRL Q to Paste (I would never
use an Apple Shortcut to exit a program anyway, but it strikes me as not so
bad to use CTRL J if you wanted).

The script to do this is:
#;::#c
#q::#v

And that's that.

--Keith Ratliff

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:10 PM, earthmoon <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Steven Marzuola wrote:
> > He didn't have to contend with any modifier key except the Shift -- no
> > Ctrl, Alt, Windows, or Menu (context) keys. And he didn't include
> > non-alphanumerical characters in his scheme, which really affects
> > programmers.
> >
> > His assumption was a typist enters text. Some of us do just that, but
> > we also spend a lot of keyboard time doing other things, including
> > moving cursors, mousing, clicking, Alt-Tabbing, navigating around
> > documents and web pages, using drawing programs, and on and on.
> >
> >
> >
> > Finally, I think he could have done something else with the thumbs,
> > instead of limiting them to entering spaces -- same as Qwerty.
> >
> > I respect him enough to believe that if he were around today (or at
> > the dawn of the PC era), he would have done a great job on a layout.
> > I just don't think he would have come up with the same keyboard today
> > that he did in 1932.
> >
> > When I tried Dvorak for a few months, it was fabulous for raw text
> > input. I would finish typing a paragraph or a page, and think, my
> > fingers hardly moved at all!
> >
> > But it drove me nuts when I had to revise my work, mostly because of
> > the layout of the control and cursor keys. I am a translator and spend
> > all day at a keyboard. Most of my job is not simply typing, but
> > editing -- my own translation, or someone else's, or the output from a
> > TM (translation memory) program. When I'm in edit mode, my right hand
> > is far to the right -- on the cursor keys and closer to the mouse,
> > while my left hand is mostly working with Ctrl-V, C, and X.
> >
>
> Wow, if anyone ever needed to try the Kinesis contoured keyboard, it's
> you. Medical transcription involves a ton of crtl plus ?, arrow key,
> page up and down, crtl alt combos - basicaly everything you're
> describing in translation, and the Kinesis was my best friend. Why?
> Thumbs & constant homerow hand placement. Crtl, Alt, delete, backspace
> are all under the thumbs where you 1) don't have to move your hands off
> the home row to reach them and 2) you don't have to wrench your wrist
> and strain your pinkie to use those keys. The arrow keys are all on a
> bottom row so that, again, you never have to move your hands off of the
> home row in order to use them. On no other keyboard can you so easily
> highlight, crtl C to copy, crtl to paste - whenever I'm on my laptop it
> drives me nuts that ALL of my usual key shortcuts are suddenly off of
> the home row so that I have to both look for the keys and then strain my
> hands into funny places to reach them. Add to that that the contoured
> design means you hardly have to MOVE your fingers to reach the keys, and
> it's a fantastic hardware design. Dvorak would have approved, I think :)
>
> I'm typing in Dvorak, but these particular key placements are all in the
> same place if you use the Kinesis in QWERTY mode as well. Computer
> programmers swear by this keyboard for the same reason - if you have to
> use the crtl, alt, arrow keys every line or 2, you HAVE to have them
> ergonomically placed.
>
> http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/images/kb_adv-blk720x471.jpg
>
> em
>
> 
>


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