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I've used a US-QWERTY keyboard layout my entire life. I've seen other layouts that do things like reduce the size of the enter/backspace keys, move the pipe operator (|) and can't wrap my head around how I would code on those.

What are your experiences? Are there any layouts that you prefer for coding over US English? Are there any symbols that you have a hard time reaching ($ for example)?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The British want a stupid as fuck they moved the tilde into a weird spot and you're basically can't do it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

what about the back tick That's what I meant I don't give a fuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's possible they tried the British layout on their American ANSI keyboard, which is missing the extra key that ISO keyboards have (the one next to enter which the British layout uses for # and ~)?

I'm not actually sure how to press that key at all if you're using the British layout on an ANSI keyboard