Extend Extra Extreme: keyboard extend layer mappings

17 pontos | por lnyan 430 dias atrás

6 comentários

• tagfowufe

  428 dias atrás
  Colemak is great, I recommend it.

  The Extend Layer is layout agnostic, and a total game changer.

  Give it a try, and enjoy enhanced, comfortable and fluid text editing and navigation at your fingertips.
• widforss

  428 dias atrás
  I started using Svorak A5 (https://svorak.ahall.se/) the summer before I started college in 2016 (with the standard bindings on the numerical keys as well, so it's redundant). Since I have started using more alphabets I have modified the layout quite a lot over the years. I now have Norwegian, Icelandic and Sami characters as well. I currently bind up to four characters per key.

  It's really true that the extra layers doesn't disturb at all. Some characters I don't even know where they are, but most I use daily. There are also some that are placed strategically, so that I can find them when i need them (ŋ is Ctrl+Shift+AltGr+N, the ◌̌ dead key is Ctrl+Shift+AltGr+^ and ° is Ctrl+Shift+AltGr+0).

  I even created a left-handed version once (https://gist.github.com/widforss/f980baa66d4c99f94adc41b17bd...), though I never bothered to learn that one.
• speps

  428 dias atrás
  I’m hoping the title is a reference to this excellent game from Xbox Live Arcade days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Extend_Extra_Extreme
• mathfailure

  428 dias atrás
  Do I get it right that they have 0 (zero, nada) visualization of what the keys of the current layout would do?

  If so - then it sounds even worse than learning vim arcane spells / motions and bindings.

  Or are there any h/w alternatives to Optimus Maximus [0]?

  [0] - https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/

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  • jon-wood

    428 dias atrás
    I use a similar keyboard layout, it took me a couple of weeks to get back to being able to competently type when I first started using it and now I wouldn't go back. It's not really any different to getting used to the fact that when you hold shift the 1 key inserts and exclamation mark instead, you probably don't consciously hold the shift key and then look around your keyboard trying to work out which key you need to hit.
  • maleldil

    428 dias atrás
    With keyboards from ZSA[1], you can use their Oryx and Keymapp[2] software to get a live preview of what the keyboard is doing.

    [1] https://www.zsa.io [2] https://blog.zsa.io/keymapp/
  • benjijay

    428 dias atrás
    That's a throwback! I remember being excited about the Optimus Maximus back around '06! Never heard of any actually making it out into the wild...
  • Bjartr

    428 dias atrás
    The Flux Keyboard should begin shipping this year.

    https://fluxkeyboard.com/

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    • imcritic

      428 dias atrás
      A numpadless atrocity.
  • nemomarx

    428 dias atrás
    you could set up rgb lighting to highlight the sections pretty easily on any decent keyboard I think.
  • exceptione

    428 dias atrás
    It is out of stock, but even then I would have zero interest in supporting someone (trigger warning) blatantly fascist:

    https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/propaganda/artemy-lebedev-...

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    • imcritic

      428 dias atrás
      That site is propaganda. Ukrainian forces have fascist battalions (azov), but you probably support them.
• BadCoder44

  428 dias atrás
  If I did not switch to chording with plover, I would try this out. I prefer chording now, but colemak was my layout of choice when I still typed a lot. Layers are more confusing for me than chords, and I find chords + phonetics to be more flexible in most cases.
• kohlerm

  428 dias atrás
  I am using a slightly modified Extend layout since a couple of years, and it was really a game changer for me.