11 points | by guerrilla a day ago ago
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For anyone who's never considered doing so, I highly recommend remapping the Caps-Lock key to Esc.
Fast access for the left pinky and makes for some nice mental symmetry in having the right pinky bound to Enter (Yes) and the left bound to Esc (No).
The only downside is when you're on someone else's machine and suddenly start typing in caps :)
I’d be fine with missing ctrl and esc, I actually don’t use them[1].
But I couldn’t work without any modifier keys next to space (cmd, opt), that’s an unexpected dealbreaker for me.
[1]: I remap ctrl to capslock and use ctrl+[ in place of escape.
If anyone wants to have this style but in an actually usable keyboard, you can buy (at great expense) these keycaps and put them on whatever cherry-mx-compatible keyboard you like:
https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement
Here is a link to the page where you actually buy the keyboard: https://www.atomickb.com/sign-up
They have their own blog post on it which I find better than the OP Apple insider post: https://www.atomickb.com/all-posts/severance-keyboard
> 70% layout
Isn't 70 or 75% supposed to have the arrows next to the other keys in a compact way? Here we have a regular keyboard with less keys.
Just don't open vim with it - there really will be no escape then.
Are there any good tutorials on how to design mechanical keyboard PCBs?
For anyone who's never considered doing so, I highly recommend remapping the Caps-Lock key to Esc.
Fast access for the left pinky and makes for some nice mental symmetry in having the right pinky bound to Enter (Yes) and the left bound to Esc (No).
The only downside is when you're on someone else's machine and suddenly start typing in caps :)
I’d be fine with missing ctrl and esc, I actually don’t use them[1].
But I couldn’t work without any modifier keys next to space (cmd, opt), that’s an unexpected dealbreaker for me.
[1]: I remap ctrl to capslock and use ctrl+[ in place of escape.
If anyone wants to have this style but in an actually usable keyboard, you can buy (at great expense) these keycaps and put them on whatever cherry-mx-compatible keyboard you like:
https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement
Here is a link to the page where you actually buy the keyboard: https://www.atomickb.com/sign-up
They have their own blog post on it which I find better than the OP Apple insider post: https://www.atomickb.com/all-posts/severance-keyboard
> 70% layout
Isn't 70 or 75% supposed to have the arrows next to the other keys in a compact way? Here we have a regular keyboard with less keys.
Just don't open vim with it - there really will be no escape then.
Are there any good tutorials on how to design mechanical keyboard PCBs?