Similar. It was throwing me off while programming though (especially with vim key bindings), so I’m currently trying quotes in the same position but under a different layer on my Moonlander. Most likely going to switch back to quotes to default layer, colon as secondary, and keep backtick in the third layer.
34 keys Colemak forces me to only keep 1 of those keys on default layer.
I currently have colon as unmodded tap, semicolon as shift tap (outer left thumb hold), double quotes as alt tap (outer right thumb hold), and single quotes as momentary layer tap, all on the same key. Makes using Vim very nice, but I’m still undecided on single quotes or colon as unmodded tap. Semicolon is the least used for me.
If I change back to single quotes, I might try tap dance + repeat key instead of using mods, but I’m still trying out colon as unmodded tap for now.
Kind of related, but SwiftKey used to have exclamation mark next to the spacebar, so you could quickly enter it. Then they switched it to period. It’s annoying as hell because typing on phone I’m much more frequently using! Or? But almost never.
I do use AltGr a load for composing non-ASCII characters. It’s currently my inner key where the joystick is. A bit of a stretch but writing C++ in vim pretty much requires the colon/semicolon key on the home row.
I’ve been interested in this, but for work I have to use keyboards connected to random computers all the time (and bringing my own keyboard isn’t an option either). I suppose I’m stuck with QWERTY. I just can’t imagine keeping two keyboard layouts in my muscle memory.
Found the Python developer. Hehe. Thanks for the reminder that we can do this stuff: all the common layouts are just suggestions, we can’t make our lives easier by recognizing that.
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