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title: Keyboard-Layout
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tags:
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- Experience
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- Opinion
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categories:
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- Experience
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- Opinion
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date: 2025-01-01
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Since around 2006 i basically write only using the
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[NEO2](https://neo-layout.org)-Layout. There are many advantages that are not
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obvious to an onlooker right away.
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Don't get me wrong. I still can type `QWERTZ` - just because you learn an
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additional layout does not mean that you forget everything from before.
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The secret sauce lies in the deeper layers. Especially layer 3 having all the
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"hard to reach" things like brackets, braces, etc. right on the home row. And
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the 4th layer is _magic_ for text-navigation. Left hand has the full navigation,
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right hand has the complete Numpad - even on laptop-keyboards that are lacking
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those.
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For me as a person having the usual German Keyboard with AltGr this just means:
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- Putting the thumb down on AltGr - it is above there anyway.
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- Use left hand as normal arrow-keys (that work EVERYWHERE because they are just
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arrow keys)
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- Also use Home/End/PgUp/PgDown/…
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Before i always had to switch over or hope that a thing had support for vi-style
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"hjkl".
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That's why i also prefer [Neovim](./Editors.md) as my primary editor - just not
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having to touch your mouse at any time for anything is such a godsend :)
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Best thing: If you don't want to switch, there is also a "Neo-QWERTZ"-variant ..
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where you can just try the deeper layers while not leaving your QWERTZ-layout
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behind. But i have just seen and never tried it. Your experience may be sub-par.
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