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by ArchieMaclean 1695 days ago
CamelCase is built in to Plover! [1] symbols work too - they might have less intuitive memorisation, but you don't use that many anyway (unless you're in APL...but that doesn't work with normal keyboards either).

You can set up Vim-like navigation e.t.c. too (e.g. [2]), for moving about in code. I haven't tried it.

I think however that the benefits of coding with Plover aren't really great enough to justify the huge struggle it would be to get proficient with it.

[1] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Dictionary-F...

[2] http://www.openstenoproject.org/stenodict/dictionaries/vim_d...

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Switching modes requires an extra chord. Movement in your editor now takes chords with a bunch of keys instead of 2. Steno is really flexible, but when you try to shoehorn it into situations where it's not good at the average chords per character typed.