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https://waytools.com/products/textblade/2/numbers-symbols It has Cmd (which I presume doubles as Ctrl for non-Apple?). It has physical Tab and ⌂ in the CapsLock position; the latter suspiciously is marked only in green, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also does Escape. And surely you can map Esc somewhere with https://waytools.com/store/showroom/info/multimap/tablet

Select and Edit combos (on home row!) let you access arrows, dedicated prev/next word, home/end and replaces Ctrl+ZXCV. So you're using Cmd(/Ctrl) and Shift less in favor of home row chords. To further deprecate Shift (leaving only letters and <>?"), most punctiuation moved to the Fn layer (the green modifier though they don't call it that).

That makes a lot of sense, as thumb-activated Cmd and Fn ought to be more comfortable than Shift.

The only loss in modifier convenience is numbers requiring Fn but that's cheap price for a row off.

=> Seems it has almost everything. The big missing modifiers are Alt and Win/Super. OTOH there is a "Media" modifier they don't elaborate on. I hope the remapping software is flexible enough to map at least Alt.

There will be a big learning curve for shortcut users, though modifier usage _ought_ to be actually more convenient than standard keyboards. (all theoretic)

Hmm, I'm off to try https://superuser.com/questions/96299/mapping-superhjkl-to-a...




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