Hi Alex,
I have asked about alternative mappings some weeks ago and did not get
any responses, except for Christopher S. George from Handykey who wrote
the following:
> We use the default mappings. Many folks have tried alternate versions only
> to return to the defaults when they realize that they seem to gain only a
> slight advantage at the cost of non-standard chords. We spent a lot of time
> in trying to design the Twiddler to minimize the importance of chord
> assignments on speed. This allowed us to assign letters to chords in as
> easy a scheme to learn as possible.
So I decided to stick with the defaults, at least for alphanumeric
chars, but since I will need some custom mappings anyway to get the
German umlaut characters, I will probably also define my own mappings
for syntax characters that I need to type often. I haven't started
using the twiddler for real work, so I don't have any suggestions yet,
but I'd be interested in learning what you and others come up with.
BTW, I have made a couple of changes to Jeff Levine's Linux driver to
make it more useful with X Windows. I mainly added mappings that are
only effective if a2x is used so that one can have the function keys
generate proper keysyms on X and escape sequences on the text console.
I am planning to test my changes a bit longer and try to address some
issues left with a2x and then give the changes back to Jeff. If there
is someone out there who is interested in the changes and wants them
right now, just let me know.
Happy twiddling,
Arndt
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 11:24:16AM -0600, T. Alexander Popiel wrote:
> I just got my Twiddler yesterday, and after a short while of
> playing with it, I've come to the conclusion that I really need
> to change the keymappings to something more appropriate to coding.
> In particular, the {}, [], and <> pairs are really strangely placed,
> and : needs to be somewhere more accessible, since I use that as
> often as I use ". I've heard references to alternate keymappings
> on this list, but I've hunted around the Handykey site (and a few
> of the list members sites) but haven't found anything.
>
> Does anyone have Twiddler mappings that I could look at for
> inspiration?
>
> - Alex
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