Comment on Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboardComments−quarterto14yI have the number keys mapped to their symbols (i.e. pressing 1 gives !, pressing Shift+1 gives 1 etc.) using a custom XKB map. Feels so much more efficient, although I don't have any hard stats.−osener14yI do the same thing using KeyRemap4MacBookhttp://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/−lloeki14ySounds almost like a FR layout.−draven14yFR layout is great for this (and writing lisp is easier when the parenthesis are easily typed) but the []{} characters are horrible to type!−quarterto14y 0 70015 1 51196 2 34396 3 27248 4 28487 5 18818 6 14918 7 12900 8 12680 9 12231 ! 8811 " 65196 £ 22 $ 10677 % 7848 ^ 2890 & 15019 * 78756 ( 164996 ) 164418 121.73935896998462% fewer keystrokes EDIT: scratch that, I was including my node_modules folders.
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I have the number keys mapped to their symbols (i.e. pressing 1 gives !, pressing Shift+1 gives 1 etc.) using a custom XKB map. Feels so much more efficient, although I don't have any hard stats.
I do the same thing using KeyRemap4MacBook
http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
Sounds almost like a FR layout.
FR layout is great for this (and writing lisp is easier when the parenthesis are easily typed) but the []{} characters are horrible to type!