[hajile]

Same here. Colmak allows me to to type at higher speeds for longer without pain.

I carry a mechanical keyboard with dipswitches that allow me to use colmak on other people's machines without much trouble (as a bonus, mechanical keyboard generally nicer than their keyboard too).

[jgalentine007]

Which keyboard out of curiosity?

[hajile]

Vortex Pok3r. It's a 60% keyboard which is a nice compromise for travel IMO. You still have programmable layers, but don't have to reach for them when doing basic programming tasks. 4 dipswitches at the bottom allow you to switch to colmak or dvorak in hardware, so no messing up the host system settings.

[jgalentine007]

Cool, I almost got the same one but went with a leopold 660m, also 60%. I just have caps lock mapped to backspace and use vim for everything I can (checkout cVim for chrome) tried colmak out today but will stick with qwerty since I'm 100% at 100 wpm touch typing.

[brennebeck]

I just looked at cVim and it’s definitely interesting. I’m currently a user of Vimium. Have you tried both, by chance? Curious about a comparison

[jgalentine007]

Vimium didn't work consistently when I tried it, where cVim did. I used to use VimFx on Firefox but it was abandoned. I like the way cVim does its follow tooltips.

[brennebeck]

Thanks! On FF Tridactyl is maintained. Vimium search bar dies in my FF because of number of tabs, so I have to use the native. Went to tridactyl recently and seems to be working better.

Edit: autocorrect fix

[brennebeck]

Actually, I just installed cVim to test and went through the docs. Very nice work. The config setup alone... anyway, Thank you! Appreciate the recommendation gp!

[raihansaputra]

Some off the shelf 60% keyboards have this, the one I remember is Poker 2/Pok3r Keyboards.