Original Github issue where a user noticed it being written on a phone
(Screenshot in this post)
User posts a screenshot of conversation on r/neovim
(Plugin author replies as u/Exciting_Majesty2005)
Github issue trying to coordinate a GoFundMe or similar
Reddit post gets linked on Hacker News
Edit:
Small update, things in issue 218 have progressed to the point that donations are now accepted by US 501(c)(3) nonprofit Hackclub:
Ledger for donations so far
($1033 at time of writing)
It’s the keyboard that gets me. Symbols are in weird places on most software keyboards, and the lack of physical feedback really destroys my typing accuracy. My fat fingers can’t type the correct keys it seems, so I rely heavily on autocorrect, which doesn’t translate well to code. It’s simply tedious to write more than a couple of sentences.
it baffles me that no one has come up with a better way of inputting text on phones yet, you can literally just write new code to do it!!! but no everyone’s just making yet another basically identical keyboard or they make neat concepts like thumbkey that don’t actually make any ergonomical sense at all…
hell i feel like you could get pretty close to ideal with just a custom keyboard layout that applies the concept of colemak to two thumbs rather than 10 fingers: put the commonly used letters where the thumbs naturally rest and put least used characters where it’s awkward to reach, and secondarily place letters such that you’re alternating as much as possible.