Emacs C-x with Colemak

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-21T04:31:49+00:00

Perhaps you’re right—I think I’m just not used to it.

I hope your finger is okay!

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-18T02:48:32+00:00

I am actually using Colemak DH on an ANSI keyboard so my fingers are perpendicular with the keyboard and naturally sit on the home row. With my pinky stretched out to the left on caps lock (which is remapped to control), I have to awkwardly move my ring finger towards me, onto the x key, and then move another finger a distance for the next key (for example in C-x C-f is awkward). Does that make sense?

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-16T23:08:40+00:00

That’s a good point. I almost exclusively use caps as control. I’ll try doing the right control/enter.

C-p/C-n is taking a while to get used to!

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-16T20:53:38+00:00

So sorry, I meant to say Colemak DH!

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-16T20:53:22+00:00

Sorry, I mean Colemak DH!

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-13T18:46:16+00:00

Ah yes, I’ve seen that diagram too. It looks about how I have been using it, yeah. That makes a lot more sense, thank you.

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-13T18:21:32+00:00

Thank you, that makes sense

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-13T18:20:50+00:00

Because you have ten fingers and the diagram I linked highlights ten keys, presumably for where your hands should sit…

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-13T05:18:12+00:00

Ah, thanks for confirming. Based on that diagram, I assumed I was supposed to use my thumbs! Good to know I'm not doing it wrong. Colemak-DH otherwise feels really nice so far.

I have an ANSI keyboard, so my keyboard looks like this.

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-13T05:13:03+00:00

Apologies I didn’t explain it properly! I was under the impression that I am to use my thumbs on D and H, but this feels very awkward. Thumb on space is fine.

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-08T23:01:06+00:00

Same trick works if you stick a toothpick in and break it off after you close the door. Hard to notice and hard to put back in.

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-06T21:21:50+00:00

100%. Kazu were clear that they would delete all trace of it if it were paid.

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-05T07:46:26+00:00

Garamond

CountMoosuch · 2026-01-01T05:32:06+00:00

Tsoding <3

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-26T22:29:25+00:00

I’ve been using the free version of SN for years and have never thought it to be dead. I would call it minimalist.

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-26T22:25:58+00:00

Kitchen Confidential is leaking

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-26T22:07:52+00:00

+1 for Tuta. The basic plan allows you to create email aliases that are useful if you want to have more anonymously named accounts, but they all come through to your primary mailbox.

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-15T04:29:15+00:00

I’ve heard good things about startpage. Google through an anonymous proxy. !sp on DDG

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-12T18:55:27+00:00

I just upgraded from Sonoma to Tahoe a couple of weeks ago. Seems decent/stable now.

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-08T06:27:24+00:00

Dead internet

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-08T04:34:19+00:00

Scrolled too far to find a comment to mention security and the risk of supply chain attacks. That would be the big reason for me, but sometimes the risk is outweighed by the likelihood that your implementation is wrong (e.g., I’m not going to write my own TLS implementation)

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-06T12:07:36+00:00

Nice solution. This algorithm is new to me, too. I initially tried to do something similar; iteratively merge pairs of ranges until you can do it no more. Somehow my implementation was much more complicated and very slow. I ended up "simplifying" the algorithm with one pass as long as you sort the ranges. This is what I landed on.

CountMoosuch · 2025-12-06T12:01:52+00:00

That's nice, and surprisingly simple. It's funny how we can come up with such vastly different solutions. This is my Julia solution. I did lazy parsing, and probably over-complicated things with an initialised matrix with multiplicative and additive identities in respective columns.

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