I agree that subjective pleasure with your choices is very important.
I just remembered another reason I chose to stay qwerty—emacs keybindings and video games (although I’m video game abstinent for the past few months). The default letters-as-commands mappings would have to be changed or positionally relearned for each such application I’m familiar with (similar: ctrl-z x c v in windows). Overall I didn’t feel like investing the effort to resolve the annoyance, but I guess I wish now that I had made the investment; I’d probably enjoy the result as you do.
The effort of installing a new layout isn’t much, you’re right (unless you hop computers often). It just might be if you use especially limited devices (does the iphone/ipad keyboard even support arbitrary layouts?) that you sometimes need to qwerty anyway.
The NEO developergroup payed attention to many of those. They also collected common sets of two or three letters from common applications. So the Smiley becomes just one roll over three buttons. I probably reap some benefits from that once I get back into Lateχ. In general I like to use tools that are optimized over my current horizon and can surprise me with thinks already put in way after I started to use them.
I guess I wish now that I had made the investment
You can make the investment at any time you choose. Once you did the calculation changes (thanks to sunken cost) but before that its a matter of finding a convenient time space. Like when one is sick at home, or in holidays.
Iphone/ipad does not have Colemak or generic support for different layouts. Not sure about Dvorak.
I agree that subjective pleasure with your choices is very important.
I just remembered another reason I chose to stay qwerty—emacs keybindings and video games (although I’m video game abstinent for the past few months). The default letters-as-commands mappings would have to be changed or positionally relearned for each such application I’m familiar with (similar: ctrl-z x c v in windows). Overall I didn’t feel like investing the effort to resolve the annoyance, but I guess I wish now that I had made the investment; I’d probably enjoy the result as you do.
The effort of installing a new layout isn’t much, you’re right (unless you hop computers often). It just might be if you use especially limited devices (does the iphone/ipad keyboard even support arbitrary layouts?) that you sometimes need to qwerty anyway.
The NEO developergroup payed attention to many of those. They also collected common sets of two or three letters from common applications. So the Smiley becomes just one roll over three buttons. I probably reap some benefits from that once I get back into Lateχ. In general I like to use tools that are optimized over my current horizon and can surprise me with thinks already put in way after I started to use them.
You can make the investment at any time you choose. Once you did the calculation changes (thanks to sunken cost) but before that its a matter of finding a convenient time space. Like when one is sick at home, or in holidays.
Iphone/ipad does not have Colemak or generic support for different layouts. Not sure about Dvorak.