Good layout for 58ish keys? (Eg sofle, Lily, Iris) specifically for coding
Good layout for 58ish keys? (Eg sofle, Lily, Iris) specifically for coding
I'm really struggling with how to lay out my additional layers.
Where should I put brackets of all kinds, parentheses, underscore, dash, hash, back tick? Should I have a numpad? I just can't decide and wonder if there's already a moderately consensus best practice?
once you get into ergo (or split ergo), this becomes a LOT more personal – you put symbols where you will find them or where you expect them to be – adjust for whatever layout (QWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak-DH, etc.) you are using and then pile on macros and optimizations to cover whatever programming languages you are working in …
Thanks this is solid advice - at least I know I'm not reinventing the wheel.
Those links were great and I've read them all. I hadn't thought about, or heard the term, bigrams before.
After reading these I think I've decided to keep my symbol layer separate from my numpad layer too.
Miryoku is the layout I see referenced most often. Lots of people just do their own, as the other commenter noted.
As others have mentioned, it's very much personal preference. I program with 34 keys every day with three primary layers: colemak dh, numpad, and nav. After having used Miryoku for almost two years, I've been using Callum-style mods for the past several months, and I really, really like it.
I'd recommend taking a look at keymaps in the QMK repo -- especially for layouts similar to the board you're using. You could also search github for zmk-config repos. It's a different firmware, but layout is layout.