this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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I don't understand why they mention programmable keyboards there. Buying a programmable keyboard to be able to rebind your keys is silly when it can be made entirely through software. On X11 for example you can load a .Xkeymap file and set your keyboard mappings this way. I use this to have a modified dvorak keymap with Altgr+auoeidhtns giving [{(|=+)]}] on the home row for instance, very convenient. Then I use my window manager i3 to rebind mod+p to send Ctrl+V using xdotool (because mod+p seems more vim-like) and I've set my terminal urxvt to treat Ctrl+V as paste. if all software supported the Sun copy paste keys then I could send those keys instead of Ctrl+V.
it is nice to be able to plug your keyboard into a new computer and have all your shortcuts and layout set up though. I do that so I have the same layout and shortcuts on my personal and work computers regardless of os
Interesting:
[{(|=+\)]}][{(|=+)]}]
So there is
{<text1>|<text2>}to get {|}.What to do to get text2 under the mainline text1 instead?
And is this part of Markdown or some other parsing? How come I missed it?