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    6 months ago

    I wheeze-laughed at “Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts.”

    Now I kinda want to do that.

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        In Vim’s predecessor, vi, switching modes was easy, with the ESC key located neatly by the Q on the keyboard of the ADM-3A terminal. On modern keyboards, though, it’s a pain …

        A simple trick in vim to alleviate the pain of reaching for the ESC key is using alt + l.

        However, this may or may not work depending on the install. I don’t remember what exactly this keybind is for but on some systems I’ve seen it insert a special character. I’ve found it typically works with vim-enhanced and neovim.

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          I have switched ESC and Caps Lock for years now. It really makes things so much easier, but now I am the guy in that meme. At least partly: I struggle to find the ESC key on other people’s computers, but sadly I’m not 23 anymore.

          It’s “setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape” btw.

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        I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I’ve begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I’ve stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless…

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      Weaksauce. Everyone knows you configure at least one Vulcan-nerve-pinch dead-key chord that primes the following key chord to switch the layout.

      Only half joking. I’m the guy with Ctrl-Super-Alt-Shift-Pause set to put the PC into Suspend mode.

      Unrelatedly, I hope the meme name isn’t a dog-whistle of some sort, because that really would be weaksauce.

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        Ooooh yeah. I didn’t even consider that, but it looks like it comes from 4chan so there’s a good chance you’re right about the dog whistle.

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        My favorite part of your suspend shortcut is that you can call it “hyper pause” and that describes both the shortcut and the action lol

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          Thanks! I wanted something hard to hit by accident but with a nice mnemonic in it.

          A cat-on-keyboard situation could just about manage it, but I don’t have a cat.