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by eviks 943 days ago
TrackPoint is cool, but happiness can only be reached on a proper ergo split keyboard without a huge space
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kybernetikos 943 days ago
Yeah, I would love a keyboard like this except that I've now moved entirely to corne-ish zen. I wish I could have a corne-ish zen with a trackpoint, but I expect the people who would like that must be a tiny niche-within-a-niche.
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ivanjermakov 943 days ago
Yep. I think QMK's mouse support[1] is sufficient for those who need it.

But personally I use mouse _really_ rarely because of my keyboard centric workflow (DWM, Neovim & Vimium).

[1]: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_mouse_keys

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eviks 943 days ago
Track point offers the unbeatable awesomeness of "analogue" reaction

- the harder you push, the faster the mouse goes.

- 360 (or whatever the effective number of directions you can push with a finger) is also much richer than 4

You can't replicate it with binary down/up buttons, so QMK-like support isn't a good replacement.

(at least for the first one you could have a newer generation of keyboards that have "analogue" buttons the track more than 2 positions)

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kamray23 943 days ago
you could technically slam a trackball onto an ergo split keyboard. wouldn't recommend it but you could. people tend to put one between their keyboards so why not just build it into the right one?
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