Programmers Keyboard Layout
Introduction
This layout is a brainstorm and redesign of how typing could be improved specially for programmer users, it features multiple things like less 'wrong keys typed', faster typing of special keys, and a more intuitive layout, it should improve typing a lot for any programmer with a minor impact on the 're-learning curve process' because its meant to not modify the original layout (whenever is possible), but improve it with more alternative keys.
Focus goals:
- Include a better combination of keys for faster typing with common programming languages
- Better access to common programming keys and less typos
- Uses the default keyboard layout, so you dont't have to learn a new layout (only since version 6)
- Very easy to remember the location of the new characters
Update: Since version 7 it actually supports other layouts of keyboard instead of only spanish, but maybe you need to add or fix it, pull requests welcome!
How the distribution is made
This image talks by itself:
- Mode 3 is equivalent to the AltGr key,
- Mode 2 is a modifier key, it is used for replace the useless Ñ key, which can still reachable with the combination a of a Mode2 + N, this is a very handy (near and fast) key that merits a better usage :)
- You can combine the modes with the Shift key, which result in another combination (like in the key G) or in a Shifted character (like the Ñ ).