When my nerves started acting up because my job forces me to use the same key combination a lot I built myself a ‘mouse board’. I slaughtered a cheap computer mouse, transferred the buttons to a footrest made of plywood, reassigned some keys with X-mouse and could now survive hours of doing mouse clicks and ‘Ctrl + C’ by doing them with my feet!
While the commercial model has stupidly heavy foot pedals my version works on a toe tap. It’s almost like dancing.
For me it’s always my left arm’s fingers that get tired first, especially the pinky and the ones close to it.
I have now resorted to using the right shift and rebinded my right alt to act as the control key on top of using it as a special modifier key for certain actions.
While holding Right-Alt:
h j k l = arrows,
w b = word-jump (Ctrl-arrow),
04= Home /End,
u d = PgUp / PgDn,
; = esc
x =Delete
Shift-x = Ctrl-Delete,
Backspace = Ctrl-Backspace,
Enter =left-click.
All the other keys act as if I click Ctrl. Like RAlt +y = Ctrl + y...
There’s also one more key near the Right-Alt that I don’t know what it’s called, but I rebinded it to be Ctrl + Shift. All of my terminals navigation commands are Ctrl + Shift.
In neovim I even binded Space +w to click Ctrl +w cuz Right-Alt + w is word jump. And I use window navigation really often.
I also have caps-lock binded to esc but don’t use it that much. 3 ways to press esc for me (4 in neovim cuz I have jj = esc). 😅
When my nerves started acting up because my job forces me to use the same key combination a lot I built myself a ‘mouse board’. I slaughtered a cheap computer mouse, transferred the buttons to a footrest made of plywood, reassigned some keys with X-mouse and could now survive hours of doing mouse clicks and ‘Ctrl + C’ by doing them with my feet!
While the commercial model has stupidly heavy foot pedals my version works on a toe tap. It’s almost like dancing.
That is so cool.
If you could share an image it would be awesome
Made a post about it, because it has been such a good gadget for me. Sorry the rotten photos, cellphone camera is kicking the bucket
Haha that is so sick. Thanks.
For me it’s always my left arm’s fingers that get tired first, especially the pinky and the ones close to it.
I have now resorted to using the right shift and rebinded my right alt to act as the control key on top of using it as a special modifier key for certain actions.
While holding Right-Alt:
h j k l = arrows, w b = word-jump (Ctrl-arrow), 0 4 = Home / End, u d = PgUp / PgDn, ; = esc x = Delete Shift-x = Ctrl-Delete, Backspace = Ctrl-Backspace, Enter = left-click. All the other keys act as if I click Ctrl. Like RAlt +y = Ctrl + y...There’s also one more key near the Right-Alt that I don’t know what it’s called, but I rebinded it to be Ctrl + Shift. All of my terminals navigation commands are Ctrl + Shift.
In neovim I even binded Space +w to click Ctrl +w cuz Right-Alt + w is word jump. And I use window navigation really often.
I also have caps-lock binded to esc but don’t use it that much. 3 ways to press esc for me (4 in neovim cuz I have jj = esc). 😅
This has helped me tremendously.