[hiergiltdiestfu]

Thanks for making this, but small note:

On QWERTZ, backtick ` is: a dead key, situated left of backspace, and it's in the "upper row", too.

So there the combo is actually Alt+Shift+´+Space, in need of two hands - it's very hard to imagine a worse default key combo choice for this task, compared to Alt+Tab. I'm glad you made it configurable.

Fun fact: one of the first public drafts for multi-line Strings in Java expected the delimiter to be ```, until I pointed out the issue as above to Brian Goetz at JAX in Mainz where he had presented said draft. My proudest professional moment.

Take away: If you deal with keyboard magic and ergonomics, spend a couple minutes to check your assumptions behind your defaults in the other big keyboard layouts.

[Kichererbsen]

this. i'm on the swiss german keyboard layout. backticks are hard to do as a keyboard shortcut. they barely work as a character (e.g. for markdown formatting) but with a bit of pracitce that _does_ work.

try getting default vim bindings to work on a swiss german keyboard... i eventually gave up.

[Twelveday]

I'm in the same boat as you and after 15 years of coding I finally switched to the US layout 3 weeks ago. Got a Wooting 60HE and installed the EuroKey layout and so far I'm super happy about the switch and many default shortcuts make a lot more sense (e.g. no more acrobatics needed for ctrl+b+[ to enter tmux copy mode).

The first few days are a little rough to unlearn all the muscle memory but I found this neat site to practice typing with your own public gists: https://www.codetyper.io/

[nrr]

I've long used the US international layout with Alt-Graph deadkeys. (For the full experience, you can perhaps buy an ANSI format keyboard from the Netherlands?)

It takes some practice getting AltGr+y as ü and AltGr+w as ä and AltGr+p as ö into your muscle memory, let alone AltGr+circumflex instead of just circumflex to get the dead key (raison d'être requires AltGr+Shift+6 to type properly), but I've found it's otherwise a remarkably workable tradeoff.

[INTPenis]

I don't know what QWERTZ is but as a life long Swedish Linux user I can tell you that backtick is a terrible key to use as a keyboard shortcut. It's often relatively hard to find and hard to generate.

[diffeomorphism]

Wait, it is not simply "key in the top left" regardless of layout? That is how it works in any Linux desktop at least.

[nrr]

No. On German and Swiss layouts, that key is a dead key: it doesn't type anything by itself when you press it. It's meant to combine with another subsequent keypress in order to yield a whole glyph with a diacritic as in, e.g., backtick followed by "e" giving "è."

It's been a while since I've been at a proper QWERTZ layout aus dem Sprachgebiet over a US QWERTY keyboard, but my memory is that the dead keys have odd behaviors when you try to incorporate them into shortcuts.

[ale42]

What key are you referring to, the backtick key, or the Alt+[KEY] used by the app?

[diffeomorphism]

The alt+[key]. On linux it is alt+tab (between different apps) and alt+[key physically above tab] (between windows of the same app), regardless of keyboard layout. Moving the shortcut away from there or even to convoluted things like "Alt+Shift+´+Space" seems very strange, hence the the question.